Error with System.loadLibrary("msvcr80");

Question

Hi,
I am trying to test a library somebody wrote and that library is using msvcr80.dll
So in my little java test program goes like this:
try {
     System.loadLibrary("advapi32");
     System.loadLibrary("msvcr80");
     // code removed for simplicity
} catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
     System.err.println("Library failed to load.\n" + e);
}But I always get an exception when trying to load msvcr80:
Runtime Error!
Program: C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\javaw.exe
R6034
An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
What's the problem? The DLL can be found no problem (it's in the path pointed by java.library.path) but cannot be loaded. Is there another DLL that needs to be loaded beforehand besides advapi32?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Symbul wrote:
Hi,
Yes I know winsxs is not in the PATH, but I put it there just for test purposes. By the way I get the same C runtime javaw.exe error when I try to load ANY library that has a dependency on MSVCR80 (even microsoft DLLs, 3rd party JNI, etc.) and I'm not the only one in the office that has the problem either. Using Process Explorer I can see all the DLLs (every location) that are load by each applications and there is only one that's in memory and it's the correct one, so I'm quite puzzled as what could be wrong here.
1. This is a JNI forum which this obviously is about.
2. Please tell us what the problem is rather than asking why your solution doesn't work.
3. Post the actual exception.
4. And verify that you are NOT using windows 7, nor any 64 bit VM.
Normally the MSVCR80 dll would be loaded dynamically by the OS when the reference of some other library requested it. In this case the most likely reason is because the dependent library (or some other) is not in the shared library path.