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["Laurent Rineau (CGAL/GeometryFactory)" <>]

On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 11:09:38 AM CEST Laurent Rineau (CGAL/
GeometryFactory) wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 10:01:23 AM CEST Andy Li wrote:
> > Thanks for you all help.
> > 
> > >From the action Preferences, I could see some plugins which are in red
> > >lines
> > 
> > and do not work. The tip shows that "The specified module could not be
> > found." I have compiled whole the plugins DLL and they exist in the
> > documents. I snap a picture. Could you please tell me why?  Thanks!
> > <http://cgal-discuss.949826.n4.nabble.com/file/t376030/test.jpg>
> 
> The errors displayed by the dynamic linker of Windows are unfortunately
> almost unusable. The message says that at least one DLL required by the
> plugin could not be found. But it does not say which one! Try the tool
> depends.exe, shipped with Visual Studio. It helps debug that king of issue.
> You can also download depends.exe here:
> 
>   http://www.dependencywalker.com/

As said a college of mines, who know Microsoft VS better than me:

"Or start the application in Visual Studio. It will then tell what dll is 
missing."

That solution seems easier than using depends.exe.

-- 
Laurent Rineau, PhD
R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory           http://www.geometryfactory.com/
Release Manager of the CGAL Project       http://www.cgal.org/