[fdo-users] Delay loading dlls ?

[Oyvind Idland]

Hi Mark,

we tried that approach earlier. It worked ok in some cases, in others not.

For example, the GDAL dll is dependent on libeay.dll. Before $PATH, the
windows
and windows/system32 folders is searched. It found a libeay.dll there and
loaded it. The
app and then halted since that dll lacked a function (older version).

Debuging such thing on a customers  machine can sometimes be pain, and
windows is
quite economical when it comes to providing useful error messages on these
issues....

By using delay load, such unpredictable behaviour can be avoided.

The only alternative we can see right now is to compile FDO from scratch and
add that option.



- Øyvind


On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Mark Branscum <mbranscum at agvance.net>wrote:

> Øyvind,
>
>
>
> It sounds like you may be running into the same issue I ran into a while
> back while deploying FDO in ASP.  Are you saying that you had to add your
> FDO ASP app's bin folder to the $PATH in order to get the native DLLs
> loaded?
>
>
>
> That is what we initially had to do.  However, if I remember correctly I
> think we eventually put the FDO DLLs in their own directory and then added
> only that directory to the system path.  That way we didn't have to add the
> ASP app's bin folder to the system path and risk the side effects you are
> describing.  However, that approach has the side effect that all ASP
> applications on the server will need to use the same FDO DLLs and you would
> not be able to run multiple versions of FDO.  But that was not an issue for
> us.
>
>
>
> Mark Branscum
>
>
>
> *From:* fdo-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> fdo-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Oyvind Idland
> *Sent:* Monday, December 13, 2010 9:18 AM
> *To:* fdo-users at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [fdo-users] Delay loading dlls ?
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> we have an issue with dll loading when using them in an Asp.NET
> application.
>
> The server pre-loads assemblies before executing the app. While doing this,
> it will also attempt to load
> native dependencies. Deployment and loading works somewhat different in an
> Asp application, so
> its starts looking for the dll's all over the place. In some cases it may
> load dll's from another app's
> bin-folder, if it is set in $PATH.. which causes unpredictable consequences
> in some cases.
>
> If delay load is set on the topmost dependencies, the Asp-app can specify
> the dll using SetDllDirectory()
> before the dependencies is loaded.
>
> Is it possible to have this feature added in FDO 3.5 and above ?
>
>
> -- Øyvind Idland
>
>
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