DLL Dependency Issues

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DLL Dependency Issues

Sometimes we get support issues with customers finding that their installs do not work due to dependencies on DLLs. For instance, a common issue arises from the use of "msvcp60.dll". This particular dependency is not due to Chameleon itself but may have come from your development environment.

One useful tool for analyzing dependencies is the dumpbin command line tool which ships with Microsoft Visual Studio. You can use this tool on your own application to see what dependencies it has. The following shows how one can use it with the examples of Chameleon's GUI and the main DLL.:

C:\Program Files\interfaceware chameleon>dumpbin /DEPENDENTS vmstudio.exe
Microsoft (R) COFF Binary File Dumper Version 6.00.8447
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1992-1998. All rights reserved.


Dump of file vmstudio.exe

File Type: EXECUTABLE IMAGE

  Image has the following dependencies:

    Vcl40.bpl
    kernel32.dll
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    user32.dll
    gdi32.dll
    version.dll
    kernel32.dll
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    CHM_LIB3.dll
    CHM_LIB3.dll
    CHM_LIB3.dll
    CHM_LIB3.dll
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    kernel32.dll
    CHM_LIB3.dll
    CHM_LIB3.dll
    CHM_LIB3.dll
    CHM_LIB3.dll
    CHM_LIB3.dll
    CHM_LIB3.dll
    CHM_LIB3.dll
    CHM_LIB3.dll
    CHM_LIB3.dll
    Vclx40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    shell32.dll
    CHM_LIB3.dll
    PluginDbg.DLL
    CHM_LIB3.dll
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    HHCTRL.OCX
    CHM_LIB3.dll
    CHM_LIB3.dll
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    Vcl40.bpl
    wsock32.dll
    Vcl40.bpl

  Summary

       10000 .idata
        E000 .reloc
       60000 .rsrc
        1000 BSS
       FC000 CODE
        2000 DATA
C:\Program Files\interfaceware chameleon>dumpbin /DEPENDENTS CHM_LIB3.dll
Microsoft (R) COFF Binary File Dumper Version 6.00.8447
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1992-1998. All rights reserved.


Dump of file CHM_LIB3.dll

File Type: DLL

  Image has the following dependencies:

    MSVCRT.dll
    KERNEL32.dll
    USER32.dll
    ADVAPI32.dll
    ole32.dll
    OLEAUT32.dll
    bzip2.dll
    python22.dll
    NETAPI32.dll
    RPCRT4.dll
    expat.dll

  Summary

       1E000 .data
       32000 .rdata
       13000 .reloc
        E000 .rsrc
       D7000 .text
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