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From: [e-mail] (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: BWCC 2.0 Turbo C++ for Windows
Date: 5 Apr 1996 14:11:21 GMT
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I had this problem! Here's what's going on, thanks to weeks of my
trying to figure it out. This was one of the strangest, weirdest, most
surreal experiences I've ever had.

As soon as I installed BC 4.5 a while back, I tried to run resource
workshop and got the BWCC error. This shocked me, as I HAD JUST
INSTALLED THE PROGRAM. How could it be an error?  I spent a LONG time
looking at version numbers in my windows and system directories, and
everything looked great.  I was going nuts.

This is what happened:  In my startup group, I had at that time a
program called Daily Notes for Windows, a notepad-thingy, which used
the BWCC library. During installation, it installed a BWCC 1.0 library
*IN ITS OWN DIRECTORY*. It loaded at system startup time, and thus it
*LOADED 1.0 INTO MEMORY*.

When you run any program requiring 2.0, it tries to load the DLL, and
sees it is already loaded. It then sees that it is the old version, and
prints the error message. Once a DLL is installed, it can't be replaced
while it is in use.

Now, if you start something that uses 2.0 *FIRST* and then load a 1.0
program, everything is fine. My problem was the 1.0 loaded first and
stayed in memory.

So scan your entire hard drive(s) for extraneous BWCC.DLL files!

Scott