NiVision does not support delayload functionality

Question

I'm writing a C++ application in VisualStudio 10 using NI Vision and NI IMAQ.
Depending on the configuration of the deployed application it may not need NI Vision at all.
In order to keep a user from requring NI-Vision on their system if the application does not use it I add the NI-Vision DLL to  the Delayload inputs of the project.
This way a user can run without a message that the NI-Vision DLL is missing if they never require it.
The trouble is, as soon as the "nivision.h" is included, when the application shuts down, it appears to make a call to imaqCloseWindow which will cause an exception if nivision.dll is not present.
The exception happens in the generated code __delayLoadHelper2 while looking for imaqCloseWindow
This appears to be called from __tailMerge_nivision_dll()
I suspect this is an issue with this line in nivision.h #pragma comment(linker, "/INCLUDE:_nivision_startup_shutdown")
Is there anyway to get around this?
Thanks,
Amaury

Answer 1

Hi,
First I just want to point out that none of our vision software is made to be compatible with VisualStudio 2010.  The latest version we support is VisualStudio 2008.
That being said, I do not see any way to get around this with out actually editing the DLL.  As you said, anytime you include the nivision.h you are going to have the call to imaqCloseWindow present.
Regards,
Greg H.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments