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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	2012-03-19 20:42 -0500
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On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:50:25 -0700 (PDT),
peter.lawton@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:


>
>I do have two users reporting install failure on 64 bit machines, and 
>with the same error message, referring to msvbvm50.dll. Something's going on....
>
>Your experiment on your wife's computer - where was the VB5 
>application residing? Was it in Program files (x86)? 
>

The search rules for the Windows Launcher to find a dependent shared
DLL (Win32 DLL, Regular DLL, ...) for a given executable are as
follows:

1) the file specified by a fullpathname
2) the folder the executable is launched from
3) the current directory
4) the current 'System' folder 
     (c:\windows\system32\ or \SysWoW64\)
5) the 'Windows' folder
    (c:\Windows, ... c:\WinNT)
6) folders contained in the Path environmental variable
   (in order, left to right)

It worked on Mike's wife's computer because of Rule 2 or 3.

The Launcher attempts to resolve all dependencies before any code
after the entry point in the executable is called. Therefore the DLL
must be in one of those search locations before the executable is
launched.

-ralph

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  Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2012-03-15 20:34 -0500
    Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty peter.lawton@blueyonder.co.uk - 2012-03-16 08:49 -0700
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      Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2012-03-18 15:51 +0000
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              Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2012-03-19 10:14 +0000
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                Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2012-03-19 07:20 -0500
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                Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-03-19 09:31 -0500
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                Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty peter.lawton@blueyonder.co.uk - 2012-03-19 08:18 -0700
                Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2012-03-19 09:36 -0500
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                Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2012-03-19 20:42 -0500
                Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2012-03-20 11:09 +0000
                Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2012-03-20 08:32 -0500
                Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty peter.lawton@blueyonder.co.uk - 2012-03-20 08:52 -0700
                Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty "Farnsworth" <nospam@nospam.com> - 2012-03-20 15:34 -0500
                Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2012-03-20 16:07 -0500
                Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty "Farnsworth" <nospam@nospam.com> - 2012-03-21 14:00 -0500
                Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2012-03-21 14:20 -0500
                Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2012-03-20 10:29 +0000
                Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty peter.lawton@blueyonder.co.uk - 2012-03-20 08:46 -0700
                Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2012-03-19 20:12 -0500
                Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty peter.lawton@blueyonder.co.uk - 2012-03-21 01:29 -0700
                Re: 64 bit Windows install difficulty "Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> - 2012-03-21 09:57 +0000
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