QuantLibXL, XLW problems: Not a valid add-In

[Siddharth Sharma-3]

Hello all,
 sorry for the newbie question, but I'm really stuck
now! The Excel Add-In I created works fine on my
development box but when tried on another machine,
Excel said "is not a valid add-in". The details are as
follows:
Compiler: VC++ 7.1
QuanLib version 0.3.8
QuantLibXL version 0.3.8
XLW was checked out from the CVS repository. I tried
to check out the build as on 2005-01-04 (which
apparently was the one used to build the addin bundled
with QuantLibXL 0.3.8) but the CVS checkout keeps
failing.

Everything compiled beautifully, but the final addin
is not being loaded by Excel on some machines. This is
very strange because the pre-packaged addin
QuantLibXL-vc71-mt-s-0_3_8.xll loaded fine on all
machines. The size of the original file was 1004KB. I
get a file size of 872 KB. Also, if I try build just
the XLWExample xll file, I get the exact same
behaviour. I suppose I am using the wrong XLW version,
and I can't seem to get hold of the correct one.
Has anyone had this problem before? What am I doing
wrong? Please help.

TIA
Sid


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[Jens Thiel]

Make sure that you ship all MSVC DLL dependencies or link the run-time
statically.

HTH, Jens.

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> Subject: [Quantlib-users] QuantLibXL, XLW problems: Not a valid add-In
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>
> Hello all,
>  sorry for the newbie question, but I'm really stuck
> now! The Excel Add-In I created works fine on my
> development box but when tried on another machine,
> Excel said "is not a valid add-in". The details are as
> follows:
> Compiler: VC++ 7.1
> QuanLib version 0.3.8
> QuantLibXL version 0.3.8
> XLW was checked out from the CVS repository. I tried
> to check out the build as on 2005-01-04 (which
> apparently was the one used to build the addin bundled
> with QuantLibXL 0.3.8) but the CVS checkout keeps
> failing.
>
> Everything compiled beautifully, but the final addin
> is not being loaded by Excel on some machines. This is
> very strange because the pre-packaged addin
> QuantLibXL-vc71-mt-s-0_3_8.xll loaded fine on all machines.
> The size of the original file was 1004KB. I get a file size
> of 872 KB. Also, if I try build just the XLWExample xll file,
> I get the exact same behaviour. I suppose I am using the
> wrong XLW version, and I can't seem to get hold of the
> correct one. Has anyone had this problem before? What am I
> doing wrong? Please help.
>
> TIA
> Sid
>
>
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[Daniele De Francesco-2]

When Excel displays that message, it usually means that one of the dll that
your program relies on is missing from your system.

This is happening in your case because your excel add-in requires the latest
runtime which you have linked to dynamically and the other machine probably
doesn't have it (it comes with Visual Studio, so if the other machine
doesn't have visual studio, most likely it doesn't have that version of the
c runtime dll).

In general, there is a free tool call Dependency Walker at
http://www.dependencywalker.com/. It shows you all dll dependencies and
shows you what's missing.
It's useful for excel but also for a bunch of other situations!



-----Original Message-----
From: Siddharth Sharma [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 1:29 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [Quantlib-users] QuantLibXL, XLW problems: Not a valid add-In


Hello all,
 sorry for the newbie question, but I'm really stuck
now! The Excel Add-In I created works fine on my
development box but when tried on another machine,
Excel said "is not a valid add-in". The details are as
follows:
Compiler: VC++ 7.1
QuanLib version 0.3.8
QuantLibXL version 0.3.8
XLW was checked out from the CVS repository. I tried
to check out the build as on 2005-01-04 (which
apparently was the one used to build the addin bundled
with QuantLibXL 0.3.8) but the CVS checkout keeps
failing.

Everything compiled beautifully, but the final addin
is not being loaded by Excel on some machines. This is
very strange because the pre-packaged addin QuantLibXL-vc71-mt-s-0_3_8.xll
loaded fine on all machines. The size of the original file was 1004KB. I get
a file size of 872 KB. Also, if I try build just the XLWExample xll file, I
get the exact same behaviour. I suppose I am using the wrong XLW version,
and I can't seem to get hold of the correct one. Has anyone had this problem
before? What am I doing wrong? Please help.

TIA
Sid


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