C - unable to start correctly 0xc0150002

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I m trying to run an OpenCV application through Microsoft Visual C   2010 Express  and get the following message     How can I solve this issue

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It is because there is a DLL that your program is missing or can't find.

In your case I believe you are missing the openCV dlls. You can find these under the "build" directory that comes with open CV. If you are using VS2010 and building to an x86 program you can locate your dlls here under "opencv\build\x86\vc10\bin". Simply copy all these files to your Debug and Release folders and it should resolve your issues.

Generally you can resolve this issue using the following procedure:

Download Dependency Walker from here: http://www.dependencywalker.com/
Load your .exe file into Dependency Walker (under your projects Debug or Release folder), in your case this would be DisplayImage.exe
Look for any DLL's that are missing, or are corrupt, or are for the wrong architecture (i.e. x64 instead of x86) these will be highlighted in red.
For each DLL that you are missing either copy to your Debug or Release folders with your .exe, or install the required software, or add the path to the DLLs to your environment variables (Win+Pause -> Advanced System Settings -> Environment Variables)

Remember that you will need to have these DLLs in the same directory as your .exe. If you copy the .exe from the Release folder to somewhere else then you will need those DLLs copied with the .exe as well. For portability I tend to try and have a test Virtual Machine with a clean install of Windows (no updates or programs installed), and I walk through the Dependencies using the Dependency Walker one by one until the program is running happily.

This is a common problem. Also see these questions:

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Good Luck!

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Just run  exe file in dependency walker  http   dependencywalker com   and it will point you the missing dlls and download those dll  www dll-files com  and paste in the c windows system32 and the folder as your  exe and even provide the path of those dll in path variable

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Here is my solution for this error       The Application was unable to start correctly  OXO15OOO20  Click to close the application      From the Start menu  click Administrative Tools  and then click Windows Server Backup  Click File  Click Option  and then in Disk Cleanup press Delete files and then press O K  and delete till it reaches to 0 byete   No Worry About it just it deletes the amount of disk space on your computer

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I take it that is a Vista Window  I often got this when first trying to port a DirectX program from XPsp3 to Vista   It s a  dll problem  The OpenCV runtime dll will call upon a system dll that will be no longer shipped Vista  so unfortunately you will have to to a bit of hunting to find which system dll it s trying to find   system dll could be vc2010 or vista   This error is also caused by incorrect installation of  dlls  i e not rolling out  hth Happy hunting

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I got this error when trying to run my friend s solution file by visual studio 2010 after convert it to 2010 version  The fix is easy  I create new project  right click the solution to add existing  cpp and  h file from my friend s project  Then it work

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In our case  next to trying Dependency Walker  it was a faulty manifest file  mixing 64 bits and 32 bits  We use two extra files while running in Debug mode  dbghelp dll and Microsoft DTfW DHL manifest  The manifest file looks like this    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  UTF-8  standalone  yes   gt   lt  --  Id -- gt   lt assembly xmlns  urn schemas-microsoft-com asm v1  manifestVersion  1 0  gt       lt noInheritable   gt       lt assemblyIdentity type  win32  name  Microsoft DTfW DHL  version  6 11 1 404  processorArchitecture  x86    gt       lt file name  dbghelp dll    gt   lt  assembly gt    Notice the  processorArchitecture  field  It was set to  amd64  instead of  x86   It s probably not always the cause  but in our case it was the root cause  so it may be helpful to some  For 64-bit runs  you ll want  amd64  in there

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Even I faced same error  I fixed it afterwards    Two things you need to look into   Whether your system path is correctly set in your environment variables Check the pre-processors in Project Properties- c c  - Pre-processors  Check whether you have included  CONSOLE  this was causing error for me  For Some applications you need to include WIN32  WINDOWS  CONSOLE  DEBUG QT DLL QT GUI LIB QT NETWORK LIB QT CORE LIB COIN DLL SOQT DLL QT DEBUG    I got this error while I was working in coin3D Application

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I agree with Brandrew  the problem is most likely caused by some missing dlls that can t be found neither on the system path nor in the folder where the executable is  Try putting the following DLLs nearby the executable    the Visual Studio C   runtime  in VS2008  they could be found at places like C  Program Files Microsoft Visual Studio 9 0 VC redist x86   Include all 3 of the DLL files as well as the manifest file  the four OpenCV dlls  cv210 dll  cvaux210 dll  cxcore210 dll and highgui210 dll  or the ones your OpenCV version has  if that still doesn t work  try the debug VS runtime  executables compiled for  Debug  use a different set of dlls  named something like msvcrt9d dll  important part is the  d     Alternatively  try loading the executable into Dependency Walker   http   www dependencywalker com     it should point out the missing dlls for you

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I met such problem  Visual Studio 2008 clearly said  problem was caused by libtiff dll  It cannot be loaded for some reasom  caused by its manifest  as a matter of fact  this dll has no manifest at all   I fixed it  when I had removed libtiff dll from my project  but simultaneously I lost ability to open compressed TIFFs    I recompiled aforementioned dll  but problem still remains  Interesting  that at my own machine I have no such error  Three others comps refused to load my prog  Attention    Here http   www error-repair-tools com ppc error php t 0xc0150002 one wise boy wrote  that this error was caused by problem with registry and offers repair tool  I have a solid guess  that this  repair tool  will install some malicious soft at your comp

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I faced this issue  when I was supplying the executable folder with a  by the  exe requested DLL  In my case  the DLL I supplied to the  exe was searching for another necessary DLL which was not available  The searching DLL was not capable of telling that it can not find the necessary DLL   You might check the DLLs you re loading and the dependencies of these DLL s

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In my case  Visual Leak Detector I was using to track down memory leaks in Visual Studio 2015 was missing the Microsoft manifest file Microsoft DTfW DHL manifest  see link Building Visual Leak Detector all way down  This file must be in the folder where vld dll or vld x64 dll is in your configuration  say C  Program Files  x86  Visual Leak Detector bin Win32  C  Program Files  x86  Visual Leak Detector bin Win64  Debug or x64 Debug

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