[DUG] finding what DLLs an exe uses

[Paul A Norman]

I had something like that years ago under 95 or 98. And I started to wonder
if you could end up with a whole chain of DLLs referenceing eachother, and
somehow one of them wrongly sharing or accessing some other's memory space.
And some other process (nothing to do with my app) triggering one of the DLL
chains off which some how impinged on some legitimate thing my app was
actually meant to be doing.

Just as I was honing in on it, it seemed that MS put an update out and the
problem disaapeared!

So I never knew!

The article I mentioned is non-specific, but may point in the right
direction and be useful in a future situation.

Paul


On 13/03/07, Jeremy Coulter <vss at vss.co.nz> wrote:
>
>  Hi Paul.
> No I have not solved the issue. In saying that, I have deleted the
> "offending" DLL and rebooted the computers, and no errors have been reported
> yet...although sometimes it takes 2-3 days before it appears, sometimes its
> overnight.
>
> I am using madExept  and the interesting thing IS, its nto reporting the
> error, and I confirmed with the guy at Madshi (or where ever it is) and he
> also thinks like I do that its actually something else NOT my app, its just
> affecting my app.
>
> But I will read the article you supplied all teh same.
>
> Jeremy
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* delphi-bounces at ns3.123.net.nz [mailto:
> delphi-bounces at ns3.123.net.nz] *On Behalf Of *Paul A Norman
> *Sent:* 13 March 2007 10:18
> *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> *Subject:* Re: [DUG] finding what DLLs an exe uses
>
>
>  Hi Jeremy,
>
> Don't know if you have resolved this yet or not, but it seems that some
> DLL error  descriptions may not always show on an open google search of MSDN
> as some of the more exotic or specific problems might have been databased,
> here is an article that describes how to get at that info if you have not
> already seen it.
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms811694.aspx
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 06/03/07, Jeremy Coulter <vss at vss.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> >  Hi All.
> > Well I am not having much luck here. Has anyone had an error like this?
> >
> >   The application or DLL C:\Windows\Systems32\Setupapi.dll is not a
> > valid windows image.
> > Please check this against your instaaltion discette.
> >
> > I am not able to reproduce the error which is slichtly worrying.
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> >  ------------------------------
> > *From:* delphi-bounces at ns3.123.net.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.net.nz]
> > *On Behalf Of *Jeremy Coulter
> > *Sent:* 6 March 2007 09:33
> > *To:* 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
> > *Subject:* [DUG] finding what DLLs an exe uses
> >
> >
> >  I have a feeling that there is a tool/s that I can use that tells me
> > what dlls are used by an app?
> >
> > I have a problem where at 1am on a client PC (and it haapens on a couple
> > of them but not all) where they get an error :-
> >
> >  The application or DLL C:\Windows\Systems32\Setupapi.dll is not a valid
> > windows image.
> > Please check this against your instaaltion discette.
> >
> >
> > the weired thing is, I am not knowingly using this dll.
> >
> > Thanks, Jeremy
> >
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