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Asked: 2026-06-12T17:14:26+00:00

This project consists of a single .cpp file which calls LoadLibrary() to load a

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This project consists of a single .cpp file which calls LoadLibrary() to load a dll-file.

What happens is that if I run the following through the Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Command Prompt:

cl /nologo Test.cpp

Everything works fine.

On the other hand, if I start up a simple Visual C++ project, add the file and compile it through there, the LoadLibrary() call fails with code 126: The specified module could not be found.

The .exe I build from the command line is more than twice the size of the one built in Visual Studio. So I guess there’s some static linking going on.

The .dll-file is fine, and it’s in the same directory as the .exe-file.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I figured it out.

    By default the cl command uses the multibyte character set. While new projects set up in Visual Studio are configured for unicode.

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