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Dark GDK / DarkGDK (Nov) exe NOT working on Vista

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bjadams
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Anything compiled with the November update of DarkGDK does not work on Vista.

Error: The application has failed to start because side-by-side configuration is incorrect.

A similar error happens on XP SP1.

All works fine on Windows XP SP3 and Windows7 beta3.

Anyone had any similar experiences?
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bjadams
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I have updated Vista and now exes work on my PC.

However they don't work on 2 other Vista PCs I tried.

Any idea what the problem might be?
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Just a longshot here do you have the needed directx aug 2007 stuff installed on the other computers ??

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directx is installed on the other pcs.

2 other pcs are getting this error: "this application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect"

I googled it, and apparantly it has to do with visual c++ dependencies. i am using visual c++ studio. any ideas?

my exe works on xp sp3, vanilla win7beta, vanilla vista sp1. The 2 other pcs are xp sp2 and sp3.
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Posted: 5th Feb 2009 13:08 Edited at: 5th Feb 2009 13:09
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Yea, I have come accross the same problem.

You just need to download something off Microsoft, I cant remember exactly which one it was, I can check when I get home.

I think this might be this:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d-074b9f2bc1bf&displaylang=en#Overview


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I have reinstalled the origianl DARKgdk release and everything works fine.

So the DEPENDENCY problem is introduced by the new DarkGDK November update.

It would be very important to know which libs the new DARKgdk depends on, so that one can link them statically with the exe in Visual C++.

Right now the exes produced DO NOT work on vanilla installations of XP, NOT becuase DARKgdk does not work, but because of the missing libs/dependencies.

the error "this application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect" does not give any hints!!!

I tried to use Dependency Walker to find out what possible lib/s could be missing but didn't notice anything in particular.
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Did you try that Microsoft link?


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the microsoft link installs redistributable dlls. that way, i am sure the exes will work. but this is not the best solution as the exe is not anymore a standalone thing. I would prefer to know what libs the new gdk is dependent on, and link them statically in the exe.
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After 2 whole days of testing I found the actual problem.

The new DarkGDK November build is somehow not including the Manifest file

Even if EMBED MANIFEST in the MANIFEST TOOL properties is set to YES.

Putting the file Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest in the same folder as the exe solves the problem.

However is there some option in VC++ Project Properties that I can tweak to force the manifest to be embedded or is this something that has to be fixed inside DarkGDK?

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