VS2012 Error: The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)

c++ visual-studio-2012 dll sfml
user3236245 picture user3236245 · Jan 25, 2014 · Viewed 17.8k times · Source

I received the error "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)" after attempting to run my exe file of my C++ SFML 32-bit program I built in Visual Studio 2012. I statically linked the SFML dlls in my project, but incorporated the following dlls along with my program:

libsndfile-1.dll
openal32.dll
msvcp110.dll
msvcp110d.dll
msvcr110.dll
msvcr110d.dll

What is the problem?

Answer

David Heffernan picture David Heffernan · Jan 25, 2014

The actual error code that you encountered is 0xC000007B. That is the NTSTATUS error code STATUS_INVALID_IMAGE_FORMAT. That error arises, almost invariably, because the application is 32 bit and attempted to load a 64 bit module, or vice versa. In your case, you state that your application is 32 bit, so it seems that it is attempting to link to a 64 bit DLL. Use a tool like Dependency Walker to diagnose the module which has the wrong bitness.

I don't understand why you are distributing both release and debug versions of the MSVC runtime. You only need one, and that one should be the release versions. The files that end d are the debug versions. You are not permitted to redistribute them.

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