I just was looking into this today and figured it was worth posting about. Usually code compiled with Visual Studio needs a redistributable package (ex. C++ Redistributables) to run. This is a set of DLLs that allows resulting executable to be smaller by having common function calls be distributed in the DLL rather than in the executable file itself. There is a way to turn this off though so your malware/program/whatever can stand on its own.

Build-Properties
Project -> [Project Name] -> Properties
Configuration
Configuration Properties -> C/C++ (or whatever language) -> Code Generation -> Runtime Library -> Set to Multi-Threaded (/MT)

It's as easy as that!