topic Re: Splunk ODBC Driver Visual C++ Redistributable Requirement in Getting Data In

Splunk ODBC Driver Visual C++ Redistributable Requirement

macklinjs — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 21:06:53 GMT

Hello,

Is the ODBC Driver Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable requirement, a hard requirement, or minimum requirement. Will the ODBC driver work with Visual C++ 2017/higher Redistributable.

Re: Splunk ODBC Driver Visual C++ Redistributable Requirement

Richfez — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:09:13 GMT

I believe it requires the 2010. Which feels odd to me since they just released a new version of the ODBC driver, didn't they?

Anyway, what prompts this question? Did you try without the 2010 version and it won't work? Or did you try it with 2017 and it does work, so you are wondering if it'll break in some weird way later?

Re: Splunk ODBC Driver Visual C++ Redistributable Requirement

macklinjs — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:07:38 GMT

We are in the process of packaging/deploying the latest OBDC driver. Our network folks have been trying to limit the VC++ 2010 footprint in our environment, and push everyone to the latest version. So they just wanted confirmation as to whether or not the ODBC would work with the higher version of VC++.

One would think the latest ODBC driver would work with the latest VC++ Redistributable. But I couldn't find anything in their documentation stating one way or the other. We haven't done any testing yet. I figured I'd just throw the question out there first.