MSVCP100.dll problems

[JohnW]

I hope this experience will be useful for others.

A recent discussion in the 'Freeware Submission' section mentioned
Project Invincible (a chess program). Well it didn't work for me. It thought the Msvcp100.dll and msvcr100.dll files were corrupt. I suspected the application software, so I downloaded the necessary files from http://www.dll-files.com. It still didn't work.

At this stage I thought it must be my problem. So I tried installing and running Rainlender which needs the same files. Didn't work thus confirming that I had the problem.

The error message you get is ...
"MSVCP100.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error . Etc"

Now browsing the web showed that whilst it was not a common problem, it had become more prevalent lately. The usual recommendation was to re-install the C redistibutable package.
Portable users don't want to do this. Browsing gave me ...
http://www.rhyous.com/2012/03/29/msvcr100-dll-download/

This provides a ZIP containing all the relevant dlls

Using MSVCP100.dll and msvcr100.dll from that download I had Rainlender and Project Invincible.

Summarising, if you hit the problem 'XXX.dll is either not designed etc'
don't just rely on http://www.dll-files.com, try a more recent alternative.

[Midas]

Thanks for sharing that info, JohnW. One is never ready enough for such woes...

[SYSTEM]

I hope this experience will be useful for others.

A recent discussion in the 'Freeware Submission' section mentioned
Project Invincible (a chess program). Well it didn't work for me. It thought the Msvcp100.dll and msvcr100.dll files were corrupt.

Sorry about that. I just realized that I had accidentally included 64-bit DLLs. I'll fix that tomorrow with version 1.00b.

Edit: Done.