Regsvr32 fails to find the dll in the current folder

windows com regsvr32
cfischer picture cfischer · Jul 29, 2009 · Viewed 13.2k times · Source

When I use "regsvr32 foo.dll" i get a "The specified module cannot be found" error.

The error is being caused because regsvr32 cannot find the file even though it is the current folder.

I have specified the full path, and it still doen't work. Any ideas????

Answer

ars picture ars · Jul 29, 2009

This can happen if foo.dll has a depenency on bar.dll and it's actually bar.dll that can't be found.

Try using depends.exe from MSVC to check the dependencies of foo.dll and see if any are missing.

Another option is to download and run FileMon. Then run regsvr32 again and see which file/module it fails to find. This should definitely track it down.

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