Robert May

Perl to EXE

Sorry, but this is a place to raise feature requests for Win32::GUI. Please take discussion about how to use it elsewhere. I suggest starting on the perl-win32-gui-users mailer. Subscribe here: https://sourceforge.net/p/perl-win32-gui/mailman/

On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 08:28, John White johnbizman@users.sourceforge.net wrote: All (3 required functions) working nicely - Thank you both very much for the help! Excellent. Robert: I'm using Windows10 which was installed end last year and updates automatically. I haven't been actively developing on Windows for some years, so it seems my information is wrong. But Ihad thought the universal C runtime was provided as part of the Windows 10 OS. I guess not.

On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 06:01, John White johnbizman@users.sourceforge.net wrote: First - Apologies to Robert! I didn't understand that the dll might have it's own dependencies. x64: vc_redist.x64.exe seems to have done the trick - The test app now successfully gets through the simple test that Carsten gave me using the latest 64 bit dll I will setup to run a more complete test and report back - Thanks a million guys! Glad that appears to have worked - do let us know the outcome of your testing. ...

On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 06:10, Carsten Klein cklein05@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I'm still wondering why Microsoft does not include these latest C++ Redistributables into their regular Windows Updates. Isn't it usual, that C/C++ binaries compiled with the operating system's default compiler run out of the box without needing to care for dependencies? Largely history and the fact that the C/C++ runtime & compiler was developed independently of the OS. On older OSs you could end up with very many...

Examining ProcessMonitor logs is quite annoying, so I suggest to try the C++ Redistributable first. Totally agree. If that doesn't work then point dependency walker at the freeimage DLL and see if it thinks anything else is missing. Process Monitor would be my last port of call (and I don't have a windows machine to hand to check my recollection, but I seem to remember that careful setting of filters makes it much less painful).

It a long time since I had to debug such issues on Windows, but from what I read it's possible that you're missing a dependency, and that causes the freeimage dll not to load. Carsten, does the freeimage DLL require a specific C/C++ runtime (e.g. needs install of Visual Studio 2015 C++ Redistributable x64)? Try using dependency walker (http://dependencywalker.com/) to see if there are missing dependencies. Failing that try Sysinternals Process Monitor ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon...