[Interest] Windows: "loadlibrary failed with error 87" on a configuration with a fake video card?

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Fri Mar 18 04:41:39 CET 2022


On Thursday, 17 March 2022 19:50:45 PDT Alexander Dyagilev wrote:
> This error message is shown by Windows OS when it's failed to load a
> library the process sayed it to load.
> 
> I.e. Qt calls LoadLibrary (directly, or by loading some other modules
> which calls it to load another modules they depends on).
> 
> Short googling tells that it's an graphics card driver related issue
> (e.g. https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/issues/10084).
> 
> But, maybe there is some known work around for this...

If you can generate a backtrace from the application at the moment that dialog 
is shown, it can help pinpoint what was being loaded and where from. There are 
too many LoadLibrary in the source code to guess which one has incorrect 
parameters. 

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel DPG Cloud Engineering





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