Application configuration problem

[michael_green]

Hi All,

Most of my users (but not all) get the dreaded "This application failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect" message following a recent trivial update. I have not, to my knowledge, changed any configuration settings - I have not even entered the settings dialog for weeks before today. Older versions of the .exe work on all machines, and the new one works on mine and one other, but that's it.

The program consists of a large chunk of Fortran90 plus a tiny piece of C++. I've got the Fortran Runtime Libaray down as "Multithreaded", and in the Linker section I've got Additional dependencies as "kernel32.lib version.lib", while Ignore Specific Library is set to "libcmt,msvcrt". These configuration settings look normal to me.

Our IT department have applied several Microsoft security patches over the last week - could these be to blame? Does anyone have any ideas about how I should track this down?

With many thanks in advance,
Mike

[anthonyrichards]

A Google search for the message you gave provides some links you could try. for example

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vcgeneral/thread/36971526-95f3-4a9f-a601-1843c86332c1

and

http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=460381

Which Version of VS are you using?

[mecej4]

Some questions: "...recent trivial update." -- to Windows, your project files, or to your program sources? Which version of Visual Studio is concerned?

The problem may be related to manifests. Some useful information that may help is at

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nikolad/archive/2005/03/18/398720.aspx