VBA cannot find my DLL, despite hardcoding location.

Question

I am using C++ to create a simple DLL that I can use from VBA code. However, while it works on my development computer, when attempting to access the DLL on different computers,

Answer 1

I just spent days tracking down and solving this problem.

In my case, the problem was that my DLL was being dynamically linked with the Multi-threaded runtime library DLL.

The fix was to load my project in VS, edit the project's Properties, and under "Configuration Properties>C/C++>Code Generation" change "Runtime Library" from "Multi-threaded DLL (/MD)" to "Multi-threaded (/MT)".

Problem solved, for me anyway. Hope this helps someone else.