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Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty

From	ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
Subject	Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty
Date	2012-03-20 16:07 -0500
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:34:47 -0500, "Farnsworth" <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:

>ralph wrote:
>> 2) Both an executable and its shared DLL (eg, App1.exe, DLL1.dll) are
>> in the same folder (eg, c:\MyStuff) and that folder is not included in
>> the PATH variable.
>> A process with its current directory in say 'C:\Working' launches an
>> executable in that folder by providing the fullpathname (eg,
>> C:\MyStuff\App1.exe).
>> DLL1.dll will be reported as 'missing' since the search rules will
>> fail.
>
>But the search rules always include the folder where the EXE is located 
>regardless of the current directory, so in order for this fail, I could 
>think of 4 things:
>
>1 - Permissions issues like you mentioned.
>
>2 - Missing dependency that the DLL depends on, like you mentioned.
>
>3 - Anti-virus program interference.
>
>4 - Somehow the search rules didn't include the folder where the EXE is 
>located despite MS saying so. I think in Windows 3.x, it wasn't included, 
>but I am not sure. Perhaps there is a bug that makes Windows not search that 
>folder in certain situations.
>

Never where the executable is "located", but rather always the current
directory it is "launched from". It is entirely possible for a process
to launch an executable within a context of "current directory" wholly
divorced from the physical location of the executable.

-ralph

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