.dll hell again

[Guest alshideaway]

Windows 2000 sp4. We have 2 separate environments for testing QA and IDE.

Both machines are built identically; one is a vmware and the other is on real

hardware. We are trying to install a msi package that registers a .dll file

and it fails on the hardware box not the vmware box. I have tested the

permissions, depends.exe and regmon, to no avail.

“RegSvr32 Loadlibrary (“c:\mycom\mycom.dll) failed. A dynamic link library

(DLL) initialization routine failed” is the general error. However in

dependency walker I am getting an error on the KERNEL32.DLL function IsTNT –

where on the vmware box it does not error. I am not a developer but the

difference in the .dll load behavior is concerning. I have just about given

up on this…