App fails to start - MFC71.dll not found

[Stephen Hueners]

I've downloaded 4.2.11.zip to my 2003 server - when I try to execute tail.exe i get This application has failed to start because MFC71.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

[Paul Perkins]

Hi,

Very sorry about that - this version of the application was compiled using Visual Studio 2003, rather than the 'regular' version of VS.

I'm curious that running it on Server 2003 has this problem.

I'm planning to re-build the app on the older version of VS over the next few days (I said that about two weeks ago!).

In the meantime, can I suggest that you revert back to the previous version.

Apologies again,

    Paul.

[James]

You can just get a copy of these dll's and place them in your c:\win(?)\system32 directory

MFC71.dll
MSVCR71.dll

Make sure to register each.  At a dos prompt in the system32 directory type:

"register MFC71.dll"
"register MSVCR71.dll"

Then you can run the program.  In case you didn't know you can download these from:

http://www.dll-files.com/

Hope that helps,
James

[Reinier van Loon]

Paul,

Thanks a lot for this program. I could use tail at work but not at home on XP. Now I can and it helps a lot when developing web sites.

I did not have mfc71.dll on my
system so tail did not start. I only downloaded mfc71.dll and put the dll in the
same directory as tail. Tail runs fine now.

No need to register anything.

Cheers, Reinier

[Paul Perkins]

Hi all,

Just to let you know that I'm about to release 4.2.12 of Tail, which will be built on Visual Studio  6, curing this problem.

Apologies!

    Paul.