Thread: Loading dll with LoadLibrary

Hi, I've been trying to load a dll using LoadLibrary. But the call to load that library returned a NULL. And when I run GetLastError, it showed me this error message:

‎"This application has failed to start because the application
configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this
problem."

I've installed the vcredist and copied the whole content of Microsoft.VC80.CRT to the binary folder since I thought maybe it was because of the SxS issue. I guess I was wrong.

BTW, does LoadLibrary always search for DLLMain? The one I tried to load doesn't have DLLMain.

What went wrong here? Thanks in advance.

Originally Posted by g4j31a5

Hi, I've been trying to load a dll using LoadLibrary. But the call to load that library returned a NULL. And when I run GetLastError, it showed me this error message:



I've installed the vcredist and copied the whole content of Microsoft.VC80.CRT to the binary folder since I thought maybe it was because of the SxS issue. I guess I was wrong.

BTW, does LoadLibrary always search for DLLMain? The one I tried to load doesn't have DLLMain.

What went wrong here? Thanks in advance.

All DLL's must have an entry point, although it needn't be named "DLLMain" (from the loader's perspective, at least - most compiler vendors do use the "DLLMain" identifier, by default, and overriding that generally requires the use of special switches).