Error: The specified procedure could not be found.

Hi there,

A colleague of mine has compiled and provided a Matlab function which I have used in a Visual Studio 2010 project. For that I had to install MRC. The code runs fine from Visual Studio, however, when I run the same code from another tool (discrete event simulator based on C++) I get the following error message:

Initializing MCR Begin Could not initialize the application. Fatal error loading library D:\Program Files (x86)\MATLAB\MATLAB Compiler Runtime\v79\bin\win32\mclmcr.dll Error: The specified procedure could not be found.

Any hints would be appreciated.

Thank you, Ivan

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

That message usually means that a DLL needed by mclmcr.dll could not be found. It is recommended to download Dependency Walker and to use it to figure out which libraries are needed and where they are being found. You will need to run it in the two different contexts, as the different tools might establish different library search paths.

[Ivan]

Thank you Walter.

How is it that when running from a VS2010 project mclmcr.dll can find a DLL and in the other context (from the other tool) it cannot? How do you see us adding these missing libraries, in the code or in the compiler options? Does it look like some paths are missing?

Thanks, Ivan

[Ivan]

Hi Walter,

I did what you suggested and found several files that could not be found:

MSVCR80.DLL

GPSVC.DLL

IESHIMS.DLL

Any suggestions? Is it simply adding the files?

Thanks, Ivan

[Walter Roberson]

The lost post in the following might help a bit, maybe, for GPSVC.DLL

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Vsexpressvc/thread/328d262b-420b-4a31-8493-2a26ffc4b235

MSVCR80.DLL I seem to remember is the VC runtime

Which OS are you using? IESHIMS.DLL will apparently show up as missing on XP but not be needed http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2465111/dependency-walker-reports-ieshims-dll-and-wer-dll-missing

[Ivan]

I am using Windows 7.

Answer 2

[Mike Woodward]

You might like to look at this download: http://www.mathworks.com/programs/simulink-visual-studio/simulink-and-visual-studio.html

It shows how to get Visual Studio to build a file Simulink can simulate with.

Mike