Thanks for the suggestions.

I compiled with scons, not with the IDE so I didn't see any way to select linker settings or anything about load order. In any case, on my PC, dependency walker shows the same order as the original, but without VCOMP90.DLL.

I also built a complete installer with nsis, and upon installing it on another system, it asks to download the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d-074b9f2bc1bf&DisplayLang=en). That could also solve the problem.

Sorry guys. This is the first time I'm building blender. Just bear with me, I'll get it right. I guess the official distribution is built in a different way, I'll have to ask some blender devs for more details.