Re: system.dllnotfoundexception on xp after vista build
nik wrote:
I can build in VS2008 and run an application on my Vista machine, but
when I try to run it on an xp machine it fails. The application is
divided into a .exe and a .dll, when it fails on the xp machine it
throws a system.dllnotfoundexception and says that it can't find
the .dll, even though it's in the same folder as the .exe
Does it say the name of the dll it can't find? Are you saying that it
is your dll that it claims to be unable to locate?
There can be two reasons for that: (a) it does fail to find it or (b) it
does find it but is unable to load it because something else that the
dll needs is missing (like the VC++ redistributables).
I've tried setting
/D "NTDDI_VERSION = NTDDI_WINXP"
/D "_WIN32_WINNT =0x0501"
/D "WINVER =0x0501"
/D "_WIN32_IE =0x0501"
in both the compile command line and in the define statements of
targetver.h without any benefit. I assume that the existence of those
definitions means that it must be possible to build on Vista and
deploy onto XP, but I am out of ideas as to what to tr
V
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