Foxpro does not start

[Olaf Doschke]

Hm,

Right now I had an error message stating MSVCR71.DLL missing when starting Foxpro during an update of RealPlayer. But while the Realplayer Update still installs, VFP9 now can start.
Maybe that was rather a hard drive issue and just coincidence, but I thought it was worth mentioning, something like this can happen.

Unfortunately I didn't make a screenshot of that message, But if you come across such a message, this can be a temporary problem.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[craigber]

Wow... Real PLayer. I haven't used that since the late 90s.

Craig Berntson
MCSD, Visual C# MVP,

http://www.craigberntson.com/blog

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Yes, RealPlayer really is just optional. I'm stil not sure, if it was interfering with VFP by "using" msvcr71.dll exclusive, if that is possible at all. That's how I would describe what happens. But maybe that can not only happen with RealPlayer, but with any C++ app using that same runtime as VFP. It's hardly reproducable, though.

The important information about this is, this isn't a hard problem, as it was only temporary, no reason to panic. If that DLL really is missing, it could be restored from the VFP CD, anyway.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[Dan Freeman]

If it was an install, it could have been *writing* msvcr71.dll which would of course block anything from using it.

(Dumb way to install but, as we all know, installers are often under-implemented.)

 

[Olaf Doschke]

This was just an update (an automatic one, as most apps nowadays do), nevertheless the msvcr71.dll may have been written. That shouldn't take very long, I had the message about the missing DLL three times, so I assume it wasn't not the moment of overwriting it, that would only explain a on time occurrence, a very (un)lucky one, but not three.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[sdocker]

I had a similar problem several years ago with a app installation, regarding msvcr70.dll. It turned out, the install program put the dll in the Root Folder, rather than the correct system folder.

I copied it to the application folder, and VFP was happy to find it there. Problem solved.

Sam