Hi Robert, Thank you for the explanation. I see what the error means now. All of the copies of the unirpc32.dll that I find have the same date and size. 6/27/2005 45,056 bytes.
Here's an odd thing. I've been digging through the dependency list (VB5) and the file list (VB.NET). VB.NET only references UODOTNET.dll. VB5 is referencing UNIOLEDB.dll and uniobjects.dll. Neither program directly references UNIRPC32.dll. I assume that one of the listed DLLs is requiring the UNIRPC32.dll, although I would have still expected to see it in the dependency list. Since the error is happening at install time, then it looks to me like the problem is in the build phase. Assuming there are no version differences, which I am pretty sure there aren't, then something in the link phase is getting the offset, or dll "wrong." By the way, thanks for helping. This is really more of a VB issue than a U2 issue. Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation Hi Charles, Native NT dlls expose the entry points to publicly exposed methods in a table. The named methods are mapped to that table. When you link to a method in a dll, the compiler loads the external dll, looks up your method in the table, and actually links to it by the ordinal offset of the entry point in the table. The error message really suggests that the two systems have different copies of UNIRPC32.dll. Go to the root of your C: drive (and any other drive you might have Universe on) and type this command: Dir /a /s unirpc32.dll This will find any copies of the dll you might be referencing. Compare the dates and sizes of the dll between the two systems. Note: the description above is actually a minor oversimplification of what happens, but illustrates why you would get this error message. HTH, Yes. Both machines are running XP and both programs were built on XP. The big difference is that one was developed with Visual Basic 5 and the other was developed with VB.NET and VS 2005. The libraries would definitely be different between those two environments. I am just not sure what the error message means. There are lots of references to that error on the Internet, but nothing explains what the error means. The error makes me suspect that there are multiple versions of the DLL, but there isn't. What is ordinal 36? And why is it expecting to find it in UNIRPC32.dll? Charles Shaffer Senior Analyst NTN-Bower Corporation The obvious first question is "Is the operating system the same on the new machine as it was on the old?" My shot in the dark is that it sounds like a library issue, and if you were moving from W2003 to W2008, that could be the pointer to your answer. Even if you went from, say Win2003 to Win2003 R2 there can be subtle differences (as we recently found with W2008 vs W2008 R2) Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage > Better by Design! >I am attempting to move an application to a new machine and I have been >receiving the following errors while installing the application from a >package. > >The ordinal 36 could not be located in the dynamic link library >UNIRPC32.dll. >The ordinal 88 could not be located in the dynamic link library >UVCLNT32.dll. > >Both of the DLLs are in C\WIndows\System32. > >The application was developed using VB5. It pulls information from our >Unidata 7.1 database. The new host machine is running XP. The >application is running fine now on another XP machine now, we are just >trying to move it. > >There is already another application on the new host machine that also >accesses data from Unidata. This application was developed in VB.NET >2005. It has been running fine for a long time and still is as far as I >know. (I'm afraid to check) > >Has anyone seen errors like this before and if so, do you know what the >errors are trying to tell me? Is there a conflict with the versions? >If >I ignore the errors, the application seems to install, and start up OK. >Haven't done any thorough testing yet. > >Charles Shaffer >Senior Analyst >NTN-Bower Corporation _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
