Re: LoadLibrary() fails in vista but works fine on XP

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:20:55 -0800
Message-ID:
<B8E961E8-494D-4CB2-95E9-2554055668CB@microsoft.com>
Are you loading the DLL early and late? What project settings did you
change?

Tom

"KK" <pedagani@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Nov 11, 4:36 pm, KK <pedag...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Nov 11, 3:58 pm, David Lowndes <Dav...@example.invalid> wrote:

I'm surprised no one really encountered the exact problem that I've
now. I've the VC++ code that works fine on XP but simply hangs up in
Vista SP1. Here is the snippet.

HINSTANCE hInst = NULL; //
hInst = LoadLibrary("ThirdParty.dll");


It seems odd that it hangs - is that really what you mean?

If it is hanging, the problem is presumably inside ThirdParty.dll

Dave


Yes thats right, in the debugger mode when I try to pass that
statement, it does not move any further - does not throw out any error
either.
I tried using LoadLibraryEx() this function has a 3rd argument with
the choices of

0. NULL
1. LOAD_IGNORE_CODE_AUTHZ_LEVEL
2. LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH

3. DONT_RESOLVE_DLL_REFERENCES
4. LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE
5. LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE_EXCLUSIVE
6. LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_IMAGE_RESOURCE

with 0-2, the behavior is same as LoadLibrary, for others it does not
hang but does not get the job right ( GetProcAddress fails to extract
the correct location)

Is there a sure way to check to see its the dll that is the culprit
here?

Thanks,


Looks like I finally figured out, apparently its the project settings
thats dragging the func into such behavior. A clean project just with
loadlibrary works fine...
Thank you anyways

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