How to make application independent from VC++ Redistributable?

Question

C++ / C#

When I used TDM-GCC, the output was a binary that runs on any Windows system from XP to 10, without any external dependencies.
Now I have switched to Visual Studio, and, accordingly, to the msvc compiler. The size of the output binary has become much smaller, but now it looks like it will require "Visual C++ Redistributable" installed on the system to work.
How can you get rid of this addiction? And, if you can easily explain the very concept of "runtime", is it only in C ++ or in C too?

Answer 1

Connect a static runtime, and then there will be no dependency.
Solution Properties -> C\C++ -> Code generation -> Runtime Library -> Multi-threaded (/MT)