DLL Not A Valid Windows Image

[LarryJ]

I allowed my customers to download an updated DLL. Some of the customers are
receiving an error when the program starts which says the DLL is "Not A
Valid Windows Image". The same files work for me on my computers. What is
this error and how can I fix this.

I have been researching this error and this appears to be a problem that is
part of Windows 2000. There is very little information in the way of a
solution. Is there any standard way to fix this problem? If this happens for
Win2000 every time I update a DLL that would be a real problem.

Thanks
Larry

[Remy Lebeau (TeamB)]

"LarryJ" <Larr...@ev1.net> wrote in message
news:4097...@newsgroups.borland.com...

> I allowed my customers to download an updated DLL. Some
> of the customers are receiving an error when the program starts
> which says the DLL is "Not A Valid Windows Image". The same
> files work for me on my computers. What is this error and how
> can I fix this.

Are you sure that the file wasn't simply corrupted during download?

Gambit

[Robert Ehteshamzadeh (Borland QA)]

"Not A Valid Windows Image" might refer to a dll required by yours and
not the your dll itself.

This microsoft support page discusses using dependency walker to track
down the cause of this message.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q198/7/07.ASP&NoWebContent=1

there is a freeware version of dependencywalker available from
http://www.dependencywalker.com/

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Robert Ehteshamzadeh (C++ QA)