Failed to run executible on clean windows install

[D4v1dW3bb]

Hi,

While everything should be embedded in one executable it should be possible to run the executable on an other computer.
I've just build your example. Installed a fresh instance of windows on vmware player and moved the executable to that instance.

When I run it i get:

2021/06/15 02:28:31 Failed to create webview2: failed to initialize the window: failed to embed the browser: failed to call CreateCoreWebView2EnvironmentWithOptions: The system could not find the environment option that was entered.

It looks like it's some how not embedded :(.

On the development machine it works.

Regards,

D4v1d

[inkeliz]

What is the version of the Windows?

You need the WebView 2. It seems that Windoow is getting the WebView 2 from Windows Updates, without requiring to manually install.

The best option is to check if the WebView 2 is installed, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/concepts/distribution#online-only-deployment. If it's not installed you can download it from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/. I think you can download and run it programmatically, when the WebView 2 is missing.

[D4v1dW3bb]

Did I understand the readme wrong? I thought the WebView 2 is embeded in the executable when you build it and therefor you don't need to install webview 2 on the machine where you run it.
Second of all, on the development machine I did not install WebView 2 either. And there it runs.

[inkeliz]

What is embbeded is the WebView2Loader.dll, which is extracted during the runtime But, the WebView2Loader.dll requires WebView2. That DLL was needed due to MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback#110. The installer of Webview 2 isn't included embbeded.