Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hey Freddie, I think I might need some guidance on this.

I loaded my IOCs LightfieldApp.exe and also the Princeton.Lightfield.exe (this does not load anything ?!) in dependencywalker, but none of them seems to load the ARC_...dll.

is there a better way than loading and scrolling through the list to search for my ARC.dll?
it wasnt obvious :(

thanks,

Hi,

 

In other situations I have seen DLL load errors caused by a dependency of the DLL in question not being found i.e. ARC_Instrument_x64.dll may be present in the right place but one of the DLLs it depends on (and is located via the PATH environment variable) might be either not found or an old/incorrect version of this required file was installed by another program which happens to be earlier in PATH and so is picked up instead. Programs like dependency walker   https://www.dependencywalker.com/  can help locate such clashes if that is the problem

 

Regards,

 

Freddie

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Mark Rivers via Tech-talk
Sent: 27 March 2023 23:21
To: William Kirstaedter <kirstaedter at fhi-berlin.mpg.de>; tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: RE: areadetector on windows, xml2 done, now Lightfield

 

Hi William,

 

I am trying to understand why you get that missing DLL error.

 

Can run the camera OK using LightField as a stand-alone application without EPICS?

 

Do you have more than one version of LightField installed?

 

ADLightField does not call that DLL explicitly, it just starts LightField in this line:

 

https://github.com/areaDetector/ADLightField/blob/3383118260b82d95255f303d673e04d4de0123c9/lightFieldApp/src/LightField.cpp#L410

 

The missing DLL is ARC_Instrument_x64.dll.  I have attached a screen shot showing the size and location of that file on my system.  What do you see on your system?

 

Mark