WAA has been running fine on my 2003 server.

I made some changes to my intranet package today and now it wont load at 
all.  I've reset the server and checked all the settings but nothing has 
changed.

WAA says it cannot load the DLL, but I can't see the full error message as 
the WAA screen shuts down.

Any one have any ideas?

TIA

Jeremy

Jeremy,

> WAA has been running fine on my 2003 server.
> 
> I made some changes to my intranet package today and now it wont load at 
> all.  I've reset the server and checked all the settings but nothing has 
> changed.
> 
> WAA says it cannot load the DLL, but I can't see the full error message as 
> the WAA screen shuts down.
> 
> Any one have any ideas?

Yes, this is a common problem.  One of the DLL's required by your package
is not available.

Regards,

Phil Ide

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Happy feast of the pig!

You're right I just compiled Xbtools into the DLL.  Put the runtime DLL's in 
the WAA directory and bingo!

Thanks

"Phil Ide" <phil@idep.org.uk> wrote in message 
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> Jeremy,
>
>> WAA has been running fine on my 2003 server.
>>
>> I made some changes to my intranet package today and now it wont load at
>> all.  I've reset the server and checked all the settings but nothing has
>> changed.
>>
>> WAA says it cannot load the DLL, but I can't see the full error message 
>> as
>> the WAA screen shuts down.
>>
>> Any one have any ideas?
>
> Yes, this is a common problem.  One of the DLL's required by your package
> is not available.
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Phil Ide
>
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>
> Happy feast of the pig!

Jeremy,

> You're right I just compiled Xbtools into the DLL.  Put the runtime DLL's in 
> the WAA directory and bingo!

The nice thing about WAA is you very quickly trip over the most common
problems and learn about them 

Regards,

Phil Ide

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Jeremy Suiter wrote:

> WAA says it cannot load the DLL, but I can't see the full error message as 
> the WAA screen shuts down.

The LOG file should contain the error message.

> Any one have any ideas?

I know that you already solved the problem, but you could have used
dependency walker to trace the WAA start and see what DLL's couldn't be
found. 

This has also proved to be a good method to find out which DLL's are needed
at minimum by a Xbase++ app.

Thomas Braun

Thomas,

> I know that you already solved the problem, but you could have used
> dependency walker to trace the WAA start and see what DLL's couldn't be
> found. 
> 
> This has also proved to be a good method to find out which DLL's are needed
> at minimum by a Xbase++ app.

Yes, I use depends.exe which does the same thing, to copy required runtime
files into a temp directory for packing into an installation routine (I
just point Inno wizard at that directory and voila!).  You have to watch
out for dynamically loaded dll's though, since these might not be loaded
when you run depends/DW.

Regards,

Phil Ide

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Phil Ide wrote:

> Yes, I use depends.exe which does the same thing

I believe depends.exe is what I'm using 

Thomas

Thomas,

>> Yes, I use depends.exe which does the same thing
> 
> I believe depends.exe is what I'm using 

Really?  I thought DW was a different product - perhaps they just have the
same .exe name!

Regards,

Phil Ide

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Phil Ide wrote:

>> 
>> I believe depends.exe is what I'm using 
> 
> Really?  I thought DW was a different product - perhaps they just have the
> same .exe name!

Hmm... dunno... see http://www.software-braun.de/pics/dw.jpg for a snapshot
(only 9kb) of the program window.

Thomas

Thomas,

>>> I believe depends.exe is what I'm using 
>> 
>> Really?  I thought DW was a different product - perhaps they just have the
>> same .exe name!
> 
> Hmm... dunno... see http://www.software-braun.de/pics/dw.jpg for a snapshot
> (only 9kb) of the program window.

Easier than that, I ran depends.exe and guess what, the title in the
titlebar is "Dependency Walker" - so I guess that settles it 

Usually I launch Process Explorer, then select my application and from the
context menu select "Launch Depends..." (which I guess is where the
confusion came in).

Regards,

Phil Ide

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