thank you. On my friends computer I did get a popup message regarding matlab which made sense (since he does not have matlab installed). I will check out the "Dependency Walker". Sivan
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2011, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > On 11-05-26 9:11 PM, sivan aldor wrote: >> >>> I ran the exact command this morning on a friend's computer which is >>> 32bit and it worked! >>> I am now running it from a different computer. As far as I can tell the >>> only difference is that his OS is VISTA and mine is Windows 7. Can that >>> really be the problem?!?! >>> >> >> What makes you think the file got copied properly to the different >> computer? >> >> By the way, I've looked at the code, and it doesn't appear to be worth the >> trouble to replace that %1, because dyn.load() is platform-neutral, while >> the message only has that format in Windows. The full error message (which >> it would have helped if you'd shown) is something like: >> >> unable to load shared object 'D:/stuff/junk.dll': >> LoadLibrary failure: %1 is not a valid Win32 application. >> >> The %1 is just the file listed on the previous line. >> > > Usually Microsoft gives more information in a popup. But we cannot be held > responsible for Microsoft's arcane error messages. Note that they give > that message not only if junk.dll cannot be loaded, but also if some DLL on > which junk.dll depends cannot be loaded. As I said, in XP or later (but not > 2000) there should be a popup message box with the details. > > It this works on 32-bit R on one computer and not another, the most likely > explanation is that a dependent DLL is missing. We recommend > 'Dependency Walker' (www.dependencywalker.com) for a GUI-based program to > examine such issues. > > >> Duncan Murdoch >> >> >>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Duncan Murdoch >>> <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> On 11-05-26 8:42 PM, sivan aldor wrote: >>> >>> The only command I am using is >>> dyn.load("dbsvls.dll") >>> >>> >>> Okay, I get the error message you showed if I try to load something >>> that really isn't a valid Win32 dll, and I don't get it when I load >>> a valid one. (I'm not sure if I can fix it to replace the %1 with >>> the filename; I'll look into that.) How do you know your dbsvls.dll >>> really is valid? >>> >>> Duncan Murdoch >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Duncan Murdoch >>> <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> >>> <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>>> wrote: >>> >>> On 11-05-26 4:53 PM, sivan aldor wrote: >>> >>> Hi Everyone, >>> I am trying to work with a routine that is from the IMSL >>> called >>> BSVLS. I >>> have the file as a .dll file. >>> I have been trying to call the routine using the dyn.load >>> function. I am >>> working on a 32-bit windows 7 OS with 3 GB. For some >>> reason i >>> still keep >>> getting the error message >>> >>> LoadLibrary %1 is not a valid Win32 application >>> >>> I looked at previous posting and they were all related >>> to people >>> trying to >>> run dll files that was created under 64bit and not under >>> 32bit. >>> But I am >>> running it on the correct settings. >>> >>> I have placed the .dll file in the BIN folder so R can >>> find it. >>> >>> Any thoughts? ideas on how I should handle this? >>> >>> >>> Why don't you tell us what you did? >>> >>> Duncan Murdoch >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
