Greetings GDAL developers,
I cannot get GDAL 1.6.0 to work on Windows Vista SP1. It appears that there is a DLL Hell problem that does not appear on XP SP3, at least with my machines. Repro steps on Vista SP1: 1. Download ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/gdal/win32/1.6/gdalwin32exe160.zip and decompress to C:\gdalwin32-1.6 2. From cmd.exe shell: a. SET PATH=C:\gdalwin32-1.6\bin;%PATH% b. SET GDAL_DATA=C:\gdalwin32-1.6\data c. C:\gdalwin32-1.6\bin\gdalinfo.exe 3. Receive the following dialog box: --------------------------- gdalinfo.exe - Application Error --------------------------- The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0150002). Click OK to terminate the application. --------------------------- OK --------------------------- The event log contains a new event: Source = SideBySide, Event ID = 33, Description = Activation context generation failed for "C:\gdalwin32-1.6\bin\geos_c.dll". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC90.CRT,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18 e3b",type="win32",version="9.0.21022.8" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis. Running depends.exe on C:\gdalwin32-1.6\bin\geos_c.dll gives the error " Error: The Side-by-Side configuration information for "c:\gdalwin32-1.6\bin\GEOS_C.DLL" contains errors. The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail (14001)." Looking in the event log again, we have another instance of the event above. This looks like a classic DLL Hell problem, with Vista thrown in just to make it more confusing. Please let me know if I've somehow messed up the install or am missing something obvious. Apologies if I am. I will investigate a bit further, but not being a GDAL developer, I do not know which compilers you use, how you intend to link to MSVCRT, etc. If the GDAL "build guy" could look at this, I'd really appreciate it. If you send private builds, I can try them out with quick turnaround. Thanks for your help, Jason
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