Re: Stupid Visual Studio Tricks

From:

"William DePalo [MVP VC++]" <willd.no.spam@mvps.org>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:18:48 -0500

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"ShutterMan" <scott.hutter@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1162092547.560252.228430@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

Correction - Im running Visual Studio 2002, not 2003. Is there issues
with 2002 and 2005 coexisting which would cause this kind of problem?

ShutterMan wrote:

Can someone help - I have both VC7 and VC8 installed. I prefer working
in C++ in VC7 and am using the allegro graphics library. However,
whenever I try to debug code in VC7, I get the following error:

"Unable to Locate Component"
This application has failed to start because MSVCR80D.dll was not
found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

So whats the trick in convincing 2003 that I want to use ITS debugger,
not 2005's?

I suggest that you find the binary that you are debugging and do

dumpbin /imports yourBinary.exeOrDll

at the command line and check if what you are debugging depends on VC8.

Judging by the message, I'd guess it does. I'm not saying that won't work
under any circumstances, but I am saying that if you have such a dependency,
it's for sure that VC7 wasn't tested against VC8 so you'd be on thin ice. In
a pinch, you could try putting the DLL in place where it can be found and
hope for the best.

If there is no such dependency, then as John implies, you have to make sure
that one compiler installation hasn't hosed another.

Regards,
Will