Re: [GD-Windows] DLL initialization (was: Loading new DLLs on old Windows)

[Andras B. <bn...@ma...>]

Hi Jon,

The DLL exists (otherways the error code would be different), and it
also doesn't mess with UNICODE. The logs report that memory is also
sufficient.

Unfortunately, I can't use a debugger, as this error doesn't happen on
my machine. Actually, this program is just my tech demo. Many people
have tried it and I got a lot of positive feedbacks so far, but now
some guy told me that it breaks on his machine, giving this error
message... So I have to figure this out blindly..

Thanks,

Andras

Thursday, February 12, 2004, 9:10:43 PM, Jon Watte wrote:


> Typically this means that you're linking with a DLL that doesn't exist, or
> you're calling UNICODE functions without unicode support, or you're plain
> running out of memory. Do you have one of the machines available for
> debugging? WinDbg sometimes helps in debugging these things.

> Cheers,

>                         / h+


> -----Original Message-----
> From: gam...@li...
> [mailto:gam...@li...]On Behalf Of
> Andras Balogh
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 4:21 AM
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: [GD-Windows] DLL initialization (was: Loading new DLLs on old
> Windows)


> My program supports dynamic loading of plugins. Every plugin
> represents a class, and resides in a separate DLL. Instead of
> exporting the class itself, I only export a factory function and
> provide a header file with the declaration of the pure virtual base
> class (ie. the interface). At runtime, I load the DLL and call the
> exported factory function, which instances an object and returns a
> pointer to the base class.

> This architecture works like a charm on most machines. However, on
> some configurations, my program reports the following: "Error Code
> 1114: A dynamic link library (DLL) initialization routine failed."

> But I have no clue why. Do I have to use DllMain? MSDN says it's only
> an optional entrypoint.. My DLLs are dynamically linked to the C/CPP
> run-time libraries.


> Thanks,

> Andras