Cannot run Dumpbin.exe under Vista Ultimate

[alexB]

What is the problem with Dumpbin.exe? It is a very useful API. It does not
run under Vista at all. get an error that it cannot work under this version
of Windows.

Thanks.

 

[Jon]

What is the problem with Dumpbin.exe? It is a very useful API. It does not
run under Vista at all. get an error that it cannot work under this
version of Windows.

Thanks.

Works fine here. Got it in my right-click 'send to' menu on Vista for a
handy list of dll exports.

 

[alexB]

Thank you Jon, it is encouraging, HOWEVER....

I just went to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\dumpbin.exe
and typed the file name

What followed is this:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\mspdb80.dll is either not
designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the
program again using the original installation media or contact your system
adm... or software vendor for support. I am the Administrator

What does it all mean?

I also want to add that I have another dumpbin.exe which I copied from XP
and another dll also from XP which are located in a diff folder and I have
the same or similar problem with it.

What shall I do?

I tried to open mspdb80.dll with LutzReflector but it did not show anything.
It said that there is no CLI header.

Thanks.

 

[Jon]

You perhaps need to copy over the mspdb80.dll file from XP too. That's
possibly what I did to get it working.
I'd leave the one untouched in

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin\

So try copying all of these files over from your XP installation and put
them in all to the same folder.

DUMPBIN.EXE
LINK.EXE
MSPDB60.DLL

Then try running dumpbin in that folder and see if runs without error
messages. If it does then you could add that folder to the path environment
variable to be able to run it from anywhere.


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Jon

Thank you Jon, it is encouraging, HOWEVER....

I just went to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
8\VC\bin\dumpbin.exe and typed the file name

What followed is this:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\mspdb80.dll is either
not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the
program again using the original installation media or contact your system
adm... or software vendor for support. I am the Administrator

What does it all mean?

I also want to add that I have another dumpbin.exe which I copied from XP
and another dll also from XP which are located in a diff folder and I have
the same or similar problem with it.

What shall I do?

I tried to open mspdb80.dll with LutzReflector but it did not show
anything. It said that there is no CLI header.

Thanks.

 

[Jon]

Sorry looks like I'm using the one from Visual Studio 6.0, which uses
MSPDB60.DLL, rather than MSPDB80.DLL Got the MSPDB80.DLL installed with
Visual Studio 8, but I think I'm using the older one from VC++ 6.0 . Might
be worth hunting around for that if you've got an older copy.

Anyhow hope that helps.

PS There's always Google if you're missing a file or two, but I didn't
really type that.

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Jon

You perhaps need to copy over the mspdb80.dll file from XP too. That's
possibly what I did to get it working.
I'd leave the one untouched in

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin\

So try copying all of these files over from your XP installation and put
them in all to the same folder.

DUMPBIN.EXE
LINK.EXE
MSPDB60.DLL

Then try running dumpbin in that folder and see if runs without error
messages. If it does then you could add that folder to the path
environment variable to be able to run it from anywhere.

 

[AlexB]

Thank you very much. Will try it all tomorrow morning.

BTW. I think you were the one who tried to help me with Microsoft Baseline
Security Analyzer's failure to install.

An hour ago I downloaded it n-th time from an MS website and it installed
without a hitch.

You never know.

 

[Jon]

Thank you very much. Will try it all tomorrow morning.

BTW. I think you were the one who tried to help me with Microsoft Baseline
Security Analyzer's failure to install.

An hour ago I downloaded it n-th time from an MS website and it installed
without a hitch.

You never know.

Well I'm glad you got it working, and I'd love to take the credit for
somebody else's help, BUT .... it probably wouldn't strictly be true.

But anyway hope it goes well, and you'll finally be able to dump those
dumpbin problems in the bin.

 

[AlexB]

Yes, it did. It turned out that directory I had dumbin.exe lacked link.exe
as well as msdis150.dll. All these files are collected neatly in C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\bin\.

Works like a clock.

Thanks much.