Error using loadlibrary; side-by-side configuration is incorrect

Hi Folks:

I am running MATLAB 2011b x64 to load a third party dll built in VC++ 2008 with debug x64 option. But I got error message as following:

Caused by: Error using loaddefinedlibrary The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail.

I am not sure what is the cause of this problem. I have added msvcr90.dll and msvrp90.dll to C:/Windows/System32;

Anyone has any thoughts? I got stuck on this for almost a day, and tried many ways, so any of your thoughts is highly appreciated. Thanks.

Nick

[Walter Roberson]

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Answer 1

[Kaustubha Govind]

It looks like that third-party DLL may be missing some dependencies. What about if you try with the sxstrace.exe tool - does it tell you anything about missing library dependencies? Perhaps the paths to some dependencies are not on the System PATH?

Answer 2

[Nick Tsui]

You are right, one of the DLLs is missing. Thanks!