After Vista System Restore, msvcr80.dll is missing! (Solved)

[KristopherWindsor]

I just installed v3.5 and it didn't solve the problem. 

[Sidewinder]

Check out this thread.

Be sure to read in it's entirety. There is a post from Martyn Lovell, the Development Lead of Visual C++ Libraries.

Good luck. 

[Spoiler]

If you have the file on your machine have you tried to re-register it?

regsvr32 /u "your path to the file\msvcr80.dll"

regsvr32 "your path to the file\msvcr80.dll"

[KristopherWindsor]

Check out this thread.

Be sure to read in it's entirety. There is a post from Martyn Lovell, the Development Lead of Visual C++ Libraries.

Good luck. 

Thanks, I'll try this. It might take a couple days since I should contact the person who made the library (the part of the program that uses C / .NET).

[KristopherWindsor]

The part of my project that needs the missing DLL is a static .a file, and it seems that I cannot get it recompiled (it is made in some form of C, but I don't code with that).
That long thread doesn't seem to have a solution for me since I don't use Visual C++.
However, I shouldn't need to recompile it since it hasn't changed since the project was working.

If you have the file on your machine have you tried to re-register it?

regsvr32 /u "your path to the file\msvcr80.dll"

regsvr32 "your path to the file\msvcr80.dll"

I tried copying from the DLLs (apparently there are two other DLLs that accompany msvcr80) to system32 and then registering them, but that gave me the same error as in my first post:



So this seems to be an impossible problem.
I might just factory reset this computer; it won't take to long to reinstall everything...

[KristopherWindsor]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg ggggggggggggggggggggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111111111

That's the general response when you find that a simple solution could have saved 2 days of aggravation.

To make a long story short, the system restore had deleted the DLLs from my project folder (as I said before).
Apparently I had replaced the missing zlib1.dll with the wrong version.
When I put the correct zlib1.dll back in the folder, the program ran fine.
I probably should have thought of that sooner...

As I suspected, this error didn't really have anything to do with msvcr80.dll.
And to think I was about to factory reset the computer to fix that...

Problem solved anyway.

Thanks for the help.
I still wonder why zlib1.dll would ask for msvcr80.dll if I had it already?