How can I share my game with my friends?

So I made a game and I wanted to share it with friends and relatives. They downloaded Visual Basic and they still can’t run the executable.
They said that when they clicked on the executable it said
The following components are required to run this program:
Microsoft Visual Basic C++ runtime
DirectX Runtime
Can someone tell me what this means and how to fix it?

Are you just zipping it up? You need to package it:

That includes the prerequisites:

Oh ok thanks i’ll try that