[gdal-dev] GDAL 1.6.0 DLL Hell problem on Windows Vista?

[Philippe Vachon]

Hi Jason,

I just tried to reproduce this, but wasn't able to; perhaps you don't
have the latest version of the C Runtimes installed. It looks as though
GEOS_C.DLL has correct manifest data embedded for the VC90 runtime
(Visual Studio 2008) so as long as you have the correct assembly
installed for MSVC it should run.

I believe installing the redistributable components
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A5C84275-3B97-4AB7-A40D-3802B2AF5FC2&displaylang=en)
should be sufficient to get the proper versions of the assemblies
installed.

Cheers,
Phil

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 05:12:02PM -0500, Jason Roberts wrote:
>    Greetings GDAL developers,
> 
>     
> 
>    I cannot get GDAL 1.6.0 to work on Windows Vista SP1. It appears that
>    there is a DLL Hell problem that does not appear on XP SP3, at least with
>    my machines.
> 
>     
> 
>    Repro steps on Vista SP1:
> 
>     
> 
>    1.    Download
>    ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/gdal/win32/1.6/gdalwin32exe160.zip and
>    decompress to C:\gdalwin32-1.6
> 
>    2.    From cmd.exe shell:
> 
>    a.    SET PATH=C:\gdalwin32-1.6\bin;%PATH%
> 
>    b.    SET GDAL_DATA=C:\gdalwin32-1.6\data
> 
>    c.    C:\gdalwin32-1.6\bin\gdalinfo.exe
> 
>    3.    Receive the following dialog box:
> 
>     
> 
>    ---------------------------
> 
>    gdalinfo.exe - Application Error
> 
>    ---------------------------
> 
>    The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002). Click OK to
>    terminate the application.
> 
>    ---------------------------
> 
>    OK  
> 
>    ---------------------------
> 
>     
> 
>    The event log contains a new event: Source = SideBySide, Event ID = 33,
>    Description = Activation context generation failed for
>    "C:\gdalwin32-1.6\bin\geos_c.dll". Dependent Assembly
>    Microsoft.VC90.CRT,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="9.0.21022.8"
>    could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis.
> 
>     
> 
>    Running depends.exe on C:\gdalwin32-1.6\bin\geos_c.dll gives the error "
>    Error: The Side-by-Side configuration information for
>    "c:\gdalwin32-1.6\bin\GEOS_C.DLL" contains errors. The application has
>    failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.
>    Please see the application event log for more detail (14001)." Looking in
>    the event log again, we have another instance of the event above.
> 
>     
> 
>    This looks like a classic DLL Hell problem, with Vista thrown in just to
>    make it more confusing. Please let me know if I've somehow messed up the
>    install or am missing something obvious. Apologies if I am...
> 
>     
> 
>    I will investigate a bit further, but not being a GDAL developer, I do not
>    know which compilers you use, how you intend to link to MSVCRT, etc. If
>    the GDAL "build guy" could look at this, I'd really appreciate it. If you
>    send private builds, I can try them out with quick turnaround.
> 
>     
> 
>    Thanks for your help,
> 
>     
> 
>    Jason
> 
>     

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