Re: [Mingw-users] "The application failed to initialize properly" error again

[Stefano S. <ste...@po...>]

On date Friday 2010-06-25 13:34:20 -0300, Martin Prüsse wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Stefano Sabatini
> <ste...@po...> wrote:
> > Can you suggest how can I fix the problem?
> 
> Sorry, I forgot to mention, since your program is not compiled with
> the MS compiler the
> problem can be some missing dll =)

I installed the vcredist_x86.exe package you pointed out at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=766a6af7-ec73-40ff-b072-9112bab119c2

which should provide the msvcrt80.dll (MicroSoft Visual C Real Time),
which seems required by systems on which MSVC is not installed.

Then using the Dependency Walker:
http://dependencywalker.com/

I discovered that there was another missing DLL problem.

This time the missing DLL was: msvcrt80d.dll, the D at the end is
meant for debugging and the DLL is not supposed to be redistributable.

So I had to rebuild the project using a release configuration, in this
case the generated DLL doesn't depend anymore on the msvcrt80d.dll
component but only on msvcrt80.dll, which is redistributable so it is
included by vcredist_x86.exe, and I reinstalled the generated DLL on
the target machine.

This fixed the runtime linking problem! Thanks for your indications,
they pointed me to the right direction.

Regards.