Re: [Condor-users] Problem with DLLs

["Bryan S. Maher" <Bryan.Maher@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Try checking the DLL's dependencies using Dependency Walker
(depends.exe).  It ships with Visual Studio, the Windows Resource Kits,
and I believe it's available for download as well.  Dependency Walker
will check the DLL for bound references and list them.  It will then
load those DLL's and check them down the entire tree.  If any are
missing on the local machine, it will flag them.  It also shows you the
version of each DLL installed so you can compare one machine to another.

-Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of MD Tyka,
Biochemistry
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:05 AM
To: Condor-Users Mail List
Subject: Re: [Condor-users] Problem with DLLs

Hi,

thanks for all the replies, at least some new things to try :)

just for the record: we managed to get one of the apps (python.exe, 
requiring python24.dll) to work: on some machines msvcr71.dll was needed
on top of the python dll - unfortunately the error message doesn't go
to stderr.

> using a  batch wrapper around their exe. Some crazy users also had
some
> success  using Cygwin this way to!
Ah - this is exactly what we're trying to do. we have a ported app that
compiles very well under cygwin. our condor pool does not have cygwin 
installed but we found that supplying cygwin1.dll solves that problem
for
about half of our condor pool. The other half crashes the app with the 
symptoms mentioned in the prev. posts. This is what i find so hard to 
understand - the condor installations appear identical across the pool
as 
far as we can tell. I will try to look at the env variables to see if 
there's any difference...

cheers,

  Mike



--On 26 April 2006 15:02 +0100 Patrick Townsend 
<patrick.townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We've had problems with some off-the-shelf apps requiring a fuller
user
> profile than Win32 Condor provides - try getting a Condor job to
return
> env  variables (set > set.txt) to see an example of the reduced
> environment. We  never solved this one and now discourage our users
from
> trying it :-( For  more notes on this matter search this lists
archives
> for posts from my  colleague 'SG Wilkinson' - there are six in March
and
> April 2005.
>
> We do have compiled Matlab working fine in this manner though. Matlab
> DLLs  are accessed from a RO network share Condor jobs can connect to
> using a  batch wrapper around their exe. Some crazy users also had
some
> success  using Cygwin this way to!
>
> 	regards
> 		Patrick.
>
> --On 26 April 2006 14:34 +0100 "Dr Ian C. Smith"
> <i.c.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> --On 26 April 2006 12:42 +0100 "Dr Ian C. Smith"
>> <i.c.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Incidently I'm seeing exactly this problem when I try to run SRB
clients
>>> using Condor. Empty stdout and stderr and the same logfile message
as
>>> you. When I run the same .exe's under my own account (which is
>>> non-priviledged) it's fine. Bizarre !
>>>
>>
>> I meant that when I run them *interactively* they work. When I change
the
>> VM1_USER attribute to run the condor job under my account (with a
>> previously stored cred) they fail as well.
>>
>> -ian.
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Michael Tyka, Computational Protein Folding
C.62, Department of Biochemistry,
University of Bristol
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