[DLLCC] Could not load library

Hey,

We're having a slight problem with one of the external libraries that we
use. It seems that after a while it simply fails to load with an "io error"
998 and yet restarting an image fixes it. MSDN lists 998 as "ERROR_NOACCESS
Invalid access to memory location". The path from which the dll is being
loaded never changes and indeed points to the correct file at the time of
the exception happening. The test case that executes a single call and
unloads the library 100,000 times doesn't fail, so I'm a tad puzzled by
this. Any ideas?

Unhandled Exception:
        class: LibraryNotLoadedError
        creator: LibraryNotLoadedError
        errorString: Could not load library
        parameter: a SystemError(#'io error',998)
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Initial Context Stack Arguments:
[1] ExternalLibrary>>primLoadLibrary:
[2] ExternalLibrary>>load
[3] ExternalLibraryHolder>>load

Cheers!

-Boris

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Thank you.

Boris Popov wrote:
The Microsoft Linker has an option /FIXED , which means that a dll linked with
this option can only be loaded at a certain address. If this address is already
occupied by another dll, the load fails, but the documentation does not state
with which error code it will fail.

Can you check if your dll was linked this way?

Ralf Propach
Georg Heeg eK