Problems with FM20.dll and crystl32.ocx while opening VB6 project - vb6

A client has recently given me some work involving their (old) VB6 program. I've successfully installed VB6 in a VM with Windows XP (32 bit), and it works just fine. The problem is when I try to open the client's program. The following messages pop up:
crystl32.ocx could not be loaded--Continue Loading Project?
FM20.DLL could not be loaded--Continue Loading Project?
After that there are a bunch of warnings cause of crystl32.ocx.
So I tried to register the dependencies with regsvr32, but it said that the modules couldn't be found, even though they were right there. Googling the problem took me to download Dependency Walker and find which dll files were needed for those files, which were:
msvcr100.dll
IEShims.dll
wer.dll
crpe32.dll
After downloading these dll files, I tried registering the first one, but it said that the "dllregisterserver entry point was not found". So I tried to unregister it first, but it couldn't find the module.
I've reinstalled VB6 several times, to no effect. Any ideas on how to make this work?

Crystl32.ocx and Crpe32.dll are Crystal Reports run time files.
FM20.DLL is Microsoft Form 2.0 Library with some standard GUI controls like label, text box, check box etc.
Msvcr100.dll is a part of
MS Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package
If there is an installer of your client's program you should run it before opening the source code with VB6 IDE. That way you’ll get all the dependencies required by VB6 program.
If not, please post the vbp file of your VB6 application.

thanks for all the help! The solution in the end was the installation of the CR 4.6 that the client later provided me with (as #BrianMStafford suggested), of VB6 SP6 and of Office 2007, together with SP3.
With that I've managed to get the project running, so thanks to everyone!!

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The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b) when copying from one project to another

I'm using MS Visual studio 2010 and openCV 2.4.8.
I get the following error when I execute some project.
Suppose I have a solution which contains only 1 project. That was built by me.
And, I have one other solution created by someone else and there are 2 projects in it. Out of the 2 projects created by that person I chose one and I copied the required header files, cpp files, DLLS and everything and put them in my project.
Then I get the above error.
Both the projects works fine when executed separately. Have I made a mistake in copying ? Or else, is there something else behind this ?
to solve this problem you should copy the DLL files from the direction of opencv like C:\opencv\build\x64\vc12\bin to the debug or release file in the project files
The problem is due to 32/64-bit mismatches of various system dlls required by Visual studio. Somehow the dlls it needs got replaced by 64-bit versions that it couldn’t load.
Replacing the dlls mentioned below from a machine that is working, solves the problem:
c:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcp100.dll
c:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcp100d.dll
c:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcr100.dll
c:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcr100_clr0400.dll
c:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcr100d.dll
The Application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application" when starting Visual Studio 2010
I've found another solution of this issue. In VS window you can just change the machine type from default 'Win32' to 64-bit (default 'x64').

vb6 not able to load forms with status bar control on windows 7 64 bit

I am trying to load open vb6 form but it says cannot find project or library and the cursor is pointing to statusbar. This particular line of code:
Private mStatus As StatusBar
I have installed the common controls for vb6 update from Microsoft but it's still not doing the job.
I have also tried this :
not able to open VB project, getting error "C:\windows\system32\mscomctl.ocx" could not be loaded
and
regsvr32 mscomctl.ocx
regsvr32 mscomct2.ocx
regsvr32 comct332.ocx
and closed vb6 down, reopened the project and tried to open the form with the control and it gave me same error message.
The edition is enterprise with sp6 installed.
Any advices to fix the issue will be much appreciated.
Thanks!
I had this problem moving projects from XP 32 bit to Win7 64 bit, and aven after getting VB6 apparently working using the various helpful instructins on this site, every time I tried to load up an existing project it failed on opening the project.
Eventually I fixed it by editing (with Notepad) the reference lines in the .VBP project file, which had C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 hard coded in, to point to C:\Windows\SysWOW64.
Reference=*\G{00020430-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}#2.0#0#C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\STDOLE2.TLB#OLE Automation
Change to
Reference=*\G{00020430-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}#2.0#0#C:\Windows\SysWOW64\STDOLE2.TLB#OLE Automation
Project files now open up and compile fine. But presumably I will have a similar difficulty if I try to open modified projects on a 32 bit system again.
Found Solution!
Add MSCOMCTL.OCX in SysWOW64(64-bit) or System32 (32-bit) folder
Project - Component - Click Browse and give path to the above file
Download Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Common Controls
and install
No OCX missing errors after that

Windows 7, 64 bit, DLL problems

I have a problem with our executable. I'm running this C++ 32-bit executable on my Windows 7 64-bit development box that also has all those Microsoft applications (Visual Studio 2008 + 2010, TFS, SDK, Microsoft Office)...
And it's still running just fine.
Now I got the client installation of the very same program and was asked to test it with a clean Windows 7 installation. Thus I got one Windows 7 64-bit VMware and updated it to Windows 7 SP 1 (the very same version my developer box is tuning).
But while on my developer box everything is fine the program does not work with the VMware (30 days trial) box.
The x86 Dependency Walker is telling me that the following DLL files are missing:
API-MS-WIN-CORE-COM-L1-1-0.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-WINRT-ERROR-L1-1-0.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-WINRT-L1-1-0.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-WINRT-ROBUFFER-L1-1-0.DLL
API-MS-WIN-CORE-WINRT-STRING-L1-1-0.DLL
API-MS-WIN-SHCORE-SCALING-L1-1-0.DLL
DCOMP.DLL
GPSVC.DLL
IESHIMS.DLL
I googled for those API-MS-WIN-... DLL files and found they should actually already be part of Windows 7 (some sites claiming the belong to Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 though).
I already tried the suggested fixes I found, which are:
running 'sfc /scannow'
installing Visual Studio 2008 SP1 runtime executables
But that didn't solve anything. :-(
Side note: My development box does not have them either, and does not seem to need them. For example, the user32.dll on my box does not link against one of those, while the installation on the VMware does.
Any idea on how to fix this issue?
I tried to find a suitable download / fix on the Microsoft pages, but I failed.
After solving my issue I wanted to report what I found out, and I can't post this as an answer because the question has been closed.
Actually all the DLL files reported missing by the Dependency Walker tool, namely those
* API-MS-WIN-CORE-...
type DLL files were not part of the actual problem.
In my case the registration of three OCX files was missing and after that everything was just fine, BUT Dependency Walker tool still listed all the very same DLL files as before even when the program was just running fine now.
The gist of it: As someone elsewhere stated, the tool is a bit dated by now and does not always work properly with a newer OS. Thus keep an eye open and don't get mislead by missing 'API-MS-WIN-CORE-COM-L1-1-0.DLL', ... the problem probably lies entirely elsewhere.
This problem is related to missing the Visual Studio "redistributable package." It is not obvious which one is missing based on the dependency walk, but I would try the one that corresponds with your compiler version first and see if things run properly:
Visual Studio 2015
Visual Studio 2013
Visual Studio 2010
Visual Studio 2008
I ran into this problem because I am using the Visual Studio compilers, but not the full Visual Studio environment.
Going to dare to inject a new link here: The latest supported Visual C++ downloads. Stein Åsmul, 29.11.2018.
I just resolved the same problem with C++ Qt 5 and Windows 7 64 bits with MSCVC 2012.
In the beginning I thought it was a MSVC/Windows DLL file problem, but as BorisP said, the problem was in my project dependencies. The key is "How to know your project dependencies in Qt 5?".
As I didn't find any clear way to know it (Dependency Walker didn't help me a lot...), I followed next the "inverse procedure" that takes no more than 5 minutes and avoid a lot of headaches with DLL file dependencies:
Compile your project and take the executable file to an empty folder: myproject.exe
Try to execute it, It will retrieve an error (missing DLL files...).
Now, copy all the DLL files from Qt (in my case they were in C:\Qt\Qt5.1.1\5.1.1\msvc2012_64_opengl\bin) to this folder.
Try to execute again, it will probably works fine.
Start to delete progressively and try every time your executable still works, trying to leave the minimum necessary DLL files.
When you have all the DLL files in the same folder it is easier to find which of them are not valid (XML, WebKit, ... whatever..), and consequently this method doesn't take more than five minutes.
I just resolved the same problem.
Dependency Walker is misleading in this case and caused me to lose time. So, the list of "missing" DLL files from the first post is not helpful, and you can probably ignore it.
The solution is to find which references your project is calling and check if they are really installed on the server.
#Ben Brammer, it is not important which three .ocx files are missing, because they are missing only for Leo T Abraham's project. Your project probably calls other DLL files.
In my case, it was not three .ocx files, but missing MySQL connector DLL file. After installing of MySQL Connector for .NET on server, the problem disappeared.
So, in short, the solution is: check if all your project references are there.
As mentioned, DCOMP is part of the VC++ redistributables (implementing the OpenMP runtime) and is the only truly missing component. All the rest are false reports.
Specifically API-MS-WIN-XXXX.DLL are API-sets - essentially, an extra level of call indirection introduced gradually since Windows 7. Dependency Walker development seemingly halted long before that, and it can't handle API sets properly.
So there is nothing to worry about there. You're not missing anything more.
A better alternative to find the truly needed DLL files that are missing (if that is indeed the problem) is to run Process Monitor and step backwards from the failure, searching for sequences of failed probes for a specific DLL file in all the system path.
I also ran into this problem, but the solution that seems to be a common thread here, and I saw elsewhere on the web, is "[re]install the redistributable package". However, for me that does not work, as the problem arose when running the installer for our product (which installs the redistributable package) to test our shiny new Visual Studio 2015 builds.
The issue came up because the DLL files listed are not located in the Visual Studio install path (for example, C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\redist) and thus had not been added to the install. These api-ms-win-* dlls get installed to a Windows 10 SDK install path as part of the Visual Studio 2015 install (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Redist).
Installing on Windows 10 worked fine, but installing on Windows 7 required adding these DLL files to our product install. For more information, see Update for Universal C Runtime in Windows which describes the addition of these dependencies caused by Visual Studio 2015 and provides downloads for various Windows platforms; also see Introducing the Universal CRT which describes the redesign of the CRT libraries. Of particular interest is item 6 under the section titled Distributing Software that uses the Universal CRT:
Updated September 11, 2015: App-local deployment of the Universal CRT is supported. To obtain the binaries for app-local deployment, install the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 10. The binaries will be installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Redist\ucrt. You will need to copy all of the DLLs with your app (note that the set of DLL files are necessary is different on different versions of Windows, so you must include all of the DLL files in order for your program to run on all supported versions of Windows).
This contribution does not really answer the initial question, but taking into account the hit-rate of this thread I assume that there are quite a few people dealing with the problem that API-MS-WIN-CORE- libraries cannot be found.
I was able to solve a problem where my application refused to start with the error message that API-MS-WIN-CORE-WINRT-STRING-L1-1-0.DLL is not found by simply updating Visual Studio.
I don't think that my build environment (Windows 7 Pro SP1, Visual Studio Ultimate 2012) was messed up completely, it worked fine for most of my projects. But under some very specific circumstances I got the error message (see below).
After updating Visual Studio 11 from the initial CD-Version (I forgot to look up the version number) to version 11.0.61030.00 Update 4 also the broken project was running again.
This solved the issue for me:
Uninstall the Visual Studio 2010 redistributable package if you have it installed already, and then install Microsoft Windows 7 SDK.
I solved the problem. When I registered the OCX files, I ran it with the Command Window that had been executed as an administrator.
For anybody who came here, but with a Photoshop problem: my solution was to uninstall the MS VC++ redistributable first x86 and 64 both. Then install one appropriate to the Windows version and architecture (86 or 64).
Installation of SQL Server Management Studio 2014 on a freshly installed Windows 7 resolved this problem at our client after a two-day ridiculous battle.
I came here with this problem occurring, after trying a fresh Windows 7 OEM install, upgrading to Windows 10.
After some searching of Microsoft forums and such I found the following solution which worked for me:
Replace C:\Windows10Upgrade\wimgapi.dll with the one from C:\Windows\System32\wimgapi.dll
I suggest also checking how much memory is currently being used.
It turns out that the inability to find these DLL files was the first symptom exhibited when trying to run a program (either run or debug) in Visual Studio.
After over a half hour with much head scratching, searching the web, running Process Monitor, and Task Manager, and depends, a completely different program that had been running since the beginning of time reported that "memory is low; try stopping some programs" or some such. After killing Firefox, Thunderbird, Process Monitor, and depends, everything worked again.
I had the same problem. After spending hours searching on the web, I found a solution for me.
I copied the file combase.dll file (C:\Windows\System32) to the release folder, and it resolved the problem.
Just to confirm answers here, my resolution was to copy the DLL that was not loading AND the ocx file that accompanied it to the system32 folder, that resolved my issue.

The program can't start because msvcp80.dll is missing

I work on a machine with win 7 32bit on visual studio 2010.
I tried to run in release mode a code that work fine on other computer(win7 64bit), and the following message came up:
The program can't start because msvcp80.dll is missing...
I tried looking up at threads dealing with this problem. tried to install diffrent Redistributable runtime versions. tried to copy those files(msvcp80.dll,msvcm80.dll, msvcr80.dll) to the project dir. and some diffrent things I don't even realised what I'm doing.
maybe some other ideas?
OK
thanks for your answers.
before i started the project i confirm all the build dll are 32bit.
I work on a 'opencv' project and narrow the problem to this one: the only problem occurred on opencv_imgproc230 lib function (like cvtColor, GaussianBlur)' what cause me to check with the program above(the_mandrill's link) the includes at this dll. it's include(or point I guess) for msvcp100.dll what seems reasonable because i work on VS10 enviroment.but even though it's screams for msvcp80.dll what belongs to VS80 I think.
by the way, when i manually include (msvcp80.dll,msvcm80.dll, msvcr80.dll) it's screams:
"R6034 An application has made an attempt to load the c runtime library incorrectly..."
It's seems that it's need to tell him to work with the VS10 version(for this dll's/runtime library)
Install Dependency Walker and run in 'Profile' mode (f7) which will show you the dlls it's looking for and failing to find.
This just means that you link agains MSVC C runtime dynamically.
So you have to install the so called redist package.
msvcp80.dll -> VC 8 -> VS 2005
X86 – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=32BC1BEE-A3F9-4C13-9C99-220B62A191EE&displaylang=en
X64 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=90548130-4468-4BBC-9673-D6ACABD5D13B&displaylang=en
The dlls where installed to a central place by the redisrt package and should be resolvable after installation.
Can you check to see if your dlls are 32bit ? Maybe you have the 64 bit versions.
See How can I test a Windows DLL file to determine if it is 32 bit or 64 bit?.
See this question.
You mentioned that you've installed the VC8 redistribute packages, but you may have missed the "correct" one.
You probably want: Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package MFC Security Update

How to Package a VC++ Win32 Console App and DLL

I have developed a Win32 Console app DLL and a small tester application for it. As far as I know neither uses MFC, .COM, .NET or dot-anything else. Development platform is VS2009 on WinXP/SP3
When I give the DLL and EXE to someone else, they are unusable. Attempting to use them generates errors similar to "Application cannot be used, the application configuration is wrong." and "cannot find xxx.dll" (not exact wording on these error messages).
I have learned from reading that there are dependencies that must ship with the EXE and DLL. These dependencvies seem to be specific to VS 2009 abd should include the MSVCRT09, etc.
When I followed MS's instruction to make a setup.exe/MSI installer for a Setup and Deployment Project (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235317%28v=VS.90%29.aspx) I add the dll to the project, move it to the "MyLibrary" folder and no dependencies are found or listed in the Solution Explorer. Yet, I know there are dependencies, DEPENDS.EXE says so.
Can anyone walk me through this or name a better site with instructions. Once again, MS's help isn't all that helpful.
thanks,
Wes
Visual Studio 2008 is version 9.0. A program built with Visual C++ 2008 normally does have dependencies on the C run time library MSVCRT09, as you discovered. If the C run time library is not installed on the destination PC (either already installed or as part of your setup project) then your application fails, as you discovered. It is no surprise that DEPENDS.EXE displays the dependency. The only question seems to be why Visual Studio 2008 doesn't display the dependency in its Solution Explorer window.
Before building your Visual Studio setup project (MSI and setup file), Visual Studio might not have had any reason yet to search for dependencies. But after the setup project is built, in my experience the Solution Explorer does show the dependencies it found, next to other dependencies that you set explicitly. If those don't show up after building, something is weird.

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