[wix-users] How do I package VS2015 Redistributables?

[Jon Earle]

I have rebuilt our client using VS2015 (update from VS2005).  It now, obviously, has a dependency on the VC2015 runtime libs.  I tried to add the CRT merge module, but that was insufficient to allow the app to work.  I then read that MS has made a new runtime - a "universal" crt... and they won't make a merge module for it.  

Clearly, this is a big problem!  Product managers don't wish to force customers to download and install a separate 14MB vcredist.exe package, nor do I consider it very acceptable to embed that into the installer.

What are people doing then, to accommodate the new requirements of VC2015?  Is it possible any longer, to create one MSI that installs the client (all of the various apps) and the runtimes to satisfy the dependencies?

Cheers!