Is there any solution to use openvino WITHOUT Visual Studio installation?

[RiverLight4]

Hi,
I'd like to use OpenVINO for commercial use, but I'm afraid there is Visual Studio license problem. Could you please help me?

Background

I'd like to do inference with OpenVINO on edge computer product; e.g. System-on-Board mini PC.
However, it seems that Visual Studio installation is needed when using OpenVINO now.
Because the company that I work for is included with "Enterprise" defined by Visual Studio community license, I'm afraid that license issue would be raised in the future, if I would release the product with OpenVINO models, including Visual Studio.

I think there are some solutions:

• Buy Visual Studio licenses for each product (too expensive)
• Install Visual Studio Community Edition by the product user (too difficult)
• Use some Visual Studio runtime, without installing Visual Studio

Question

• Is there any solution to run OpenVINO without Visual Studio?
• Or, is there any matched license of Visual Studio?
• What EXE/DLL are needed to run model with OpenVINO?

I think I should ask to Microsoft about detail Visual Studio license, but I’d like to make it clear why Visual Studio is needed when running OpenVINO before I ask.

[ilya-lavrenov]

You don't need Visual Studio, you need Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170
It's required for almost ALL Windows apps

[RiverLight4]

Thank you very much.
As you mentioned, I installed Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable vc_redist_x64.exe then OpenVINO is worked.

Because there is no description in Installation manual about this, I hope that this answer will be written in the future.