Re: LoadLibrary path ?
"SteveB" wrote:
I have a DLL that needs to loaded via LoadLibrary.
I wrote a test harness that worked fine in VC++ 2005,
when
I moved to
code to VS 2003 LoadLibrary insists on having the full
path to the DLL
and not just the DLL name that VS 2005 is happy with.
Does anyone know what I'm missing ?
Obviously LoadLibrary fails to find required DLL. For
detailed description of DLL search order see here:
"Dynamic-Link Library Search Order"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dllproc/base/dynamic-link_library_search_order.asp
Hmmm - I'd already checked with the DLL in the app folder
and System32
and neither worked.
Followed your link and I seem to be missing the
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\SafeDllSearchMode
key altogether.
I'm running XP SP2.
I reckon that in absence of the key its value considered as
0 (default for WinXP). Try to put the DLL in the same
directory as calling executable. Just to ensure that it can
be loaded at all. Also, you can open the DLL with Dependency
Walker utility to ensure that all necessary dependencies are
available and can be loaded.
HTH
Alex
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