Help Me Mr Wizard!

[Fred Covely <fc...@bcftech.com>]

I would like not to spend my weekend figuring this out so I am hoping
someone knows the answer or absent that, has a couple of good theories.  We
are talking about Xalan/Xerces C++.

I am running some Xalan/Xerces stuff under Borlands Delphi 5.0.  Its pretty
trivial.  I do a loadlibrary on a dll and then getprocaddr and then make the
function calls as needed.  I have done this a million times and have other
DLL's in the same .exe that are working fine using this technique.

Here is the wierdness.

I have a DLL that is roughly modeled after the sample STreamTransform sample
in Xalan.

When I attempt to loadlibrary on this dll the call fails with no errors and
the Getlasterror code of C0000090 (no clue what that is).  Anyway, what I
did was resort to dumping the dll using a borland utility tdump, that shows
imports/exports/ dll's and other stuff.  I then attempted a loadlibrary on
each imported lib in my dll.  I can load the xercesxxx.dll just fine, I can
load the xalandom just fine, but when I try and load PlatformSupport.dll I
get the wierd behavior.  LoadLibrary returns 0, without any other windows
messages popping up (usually if you are loading a dll via loadlib and it
also loads other dll's that are not accessible in the path, then you get a
popup dialog telling you which 'sub' dll's were not found.)

I can run this down the hard way by debugging PlatformSupport.dll, but was
hoping someone else might have a clue, as clearly I do not.  I do have
blonde hair!

thx
fhc

Fred Covely
BCF Technology
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