System error: missing MSVCP90D.dll

[Munjal Doshi]

After doing a sync and rebuild of chrome (all of which succeeded), when I run chrome.exe (debug build) from within VS or outside VS, I get the following system error dialog:

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chrome.exe - System Error
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The program can't start because MSVCP90D.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem. 
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OK   
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Does anyone know what the problem could be?

[Daniel Cheng]

You could try (re)installing the VS2008 redistributable. I'm not really sure why it'd randomly stop working though if you have VS installed.

Daniel

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[Alex Pakhunov]

Shouldn't that be fixed if chrome was linked to the static CRT? Are there any specific reasons why the dynamic CRT is used?

Alex.

[Munjal Doshi]

Some time ago I followed some steps on chromium blog somewhere to setup the build env on windows to speed up the build. I wonder if one of them was to use dynamic CRT. Checking...

[Munjal Doshi]

I have no such folder as C:\WinDDK on my machine (Win 7 Enterprise).

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Eugene Girard <gir...@google.com> wrote:

I "fixed" this by copying "C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1\bin\x86\ia64\msvcp90.dll" into C:\Windows\WOW64.

(For debug builds, you will want msvcp90d.dll)

[Eugene Girard]

The setup page (http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-
instructions-windows) asks you to install the WDK if you are using
VS2010 Express. It's at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487463.aspx

You might already have the DLL on your machine though.

HTH,
Gene

On May 15, 6:49 pm, Munjal Doshi <mun...@chromium.org> wrote:
> I have no such folder as C:\WinDDK on my machine (Win 7 Enterprise).
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> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Eugene Girard <gir...@google.com> wrote:
> > I "fixed" this by copying
> > "C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1\bin\x86\ia64\msvcp90.dll" into C:\Windows\WOW64.
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> > (For debug builds, you will want msvcp90d.dll)
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> > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Munjal Doshi <mun...@chromium.org> wrote:
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> >> Some time ago I followed some steps on chromium blog somewhere to setup
> >> the build env on windows to speed up the build. I wonder if one of them was
> >> to use dynamic CRT. Checking...
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> >> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Alex Pakhunov <alex...@google.com>wrote:
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> >>> Shouldn't that be fixed if chrome was linked to the static CRT? Are
> >>> there any specific reasons why the dynamic CRT is used?
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> >>> Alex.
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> >>> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Daniel Cheng <dch...@chromium.org>wrote:
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> >>>> You could try (re)installing the VS2008 redistributable<http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29>.

[Scott Graham]

That dll should be in a subdirectory of \Windows\winsxs\.

If it's there, it smells like a manifest problem. You might have more
luck not using component=shared_library if you are using it.

(I'm surprised copying an ia64 dll did anything helpful?)

[Gabriel Charette]

This might be related to my recent change:

http://codereview.chromium.org/9701050/ .

Which OS / build system (VS 200?) are you using.

I have a change upcoming to make this change more flexible (i.e. its currently supposed to work on your machine, but not when copying the bits over somewhere else) https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10387140/ ... let me know if this helps you.

Cheers,

Gab

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[Alex Pakhunov]

(I'm surprised copying an ia64 dll did anything helpful?)

It probably wasn't actually an Itanium DLL:

"C:\WinDDK\7600.16385.1\bin\x86\ia64\msvcp90.dll"

Not that I think it copying anything to syswow64 directory is a good idea. :-) 

Alex. 

[Munjal Doshi]

I am still using VS 2008. And I do see the DLL in a ton of places under C:\Windows\winsxs.

[Gabriel Charette]

Ok this fix won't help you yet then, let me make it non-VS-version specific.

[Gabriel Charette]

FYI, this change is being reverted as we speak, I'll write a new patch that does this correctly so that you shouldn't see it come through when it does ;)!

http://codereview.chromium.org/10391153/ 

Cheers,

Gab

[Munjal Doshi]

Thanks Gabriel.