UI-Console Error: LoadLibrary('mupen64plus.dll') error: The specified module could not be found

[tunes0710]

Hi all.
I've downloaded both mupen64plus-bundle-win32-2.5.zip and mupen64plus-bundle-win32-2.5.9.zip

Have extracted them to individual folders, opened up a command prompt and cd'd to each one
but when I run mupen64plus-ui-console.exe I get

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| |  | | |_| | |_) |  __/ | | | (_) |__   _|  __/| | |_| \__ \
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             |_|         https://mupen64plus.org/
Mupen64Plus Console User-Interface Version 2.5.9

UI-Console Error: LoadLibrary('mupen64plus.dll') error: The specified module could not be found.

UI-Console Error: LoadLibrary('.\mupen64plus.dll') error: The specified module could not be found.

UI-Console Error: AttachCoreLib() Error: failed to find Mupen64Plus Core library

The same error as this person (#429) was getting when he was compiling them himself.

Are the binary package requirements needed for pre-compiled exe's? or just when you are compiling yourself?

How would I figure out which package I am missing.. I was originally missing msvcr120.dll, but I think that is because I am on a 64 bit version of windows (10). I downloaded a 32 bit .dll and put that in the folder and it got me past that issue.

Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers :-)

[tunes0710]

Forgot to add... I downloaded m64py and installed that and that opens and I can run games through that ok.

[Narann]

Maybe you could try to extract them in the same folder.

[tunes0710]

If I create a new folder with the contents of m64py and copy over mupen64plus-ui-console.exe and then run it in the folder, it works

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|  \/  |_   _ _ __   ___ _ __  / /_ | || | |  _ \| |_   _ ___
| |\/| | | | | '_ \ / _ \ '_ \| '_ \| || |_| |_) | | | | / __|
| |  | | |_| | |_) |  __/ | | | (_) |__   _|  __/| | |_| \__ \
|_|  |_|\__,_| .__/ \___|_| |_|\___/   |_| |_|   |_|\__,_|___/
             |_|         https://mupen64plus.org/
Mupen64Plus Console User-Interface Version 2.5.9

UI-Console: attached to core library 'Mupen64Plus Core' version 2.5.0
UI-Console:             Includes support for Dynamic Recompiler.
UI-Console Error: no ROM filepath given

If I copy over the mupen64plus.dll from either the 2.5.0 or 2.5.9 folder in to the test folder, it then gives the loadlibrary error

10/02/2019 11:51 468,480 mupen64plus.dll <--- dll from bundle package
19/01/2017 04:24 3,605,504 mupen64plus.dll <--- dll from m64py

Is the one in the bundle looking for pre-requisites?

How easy is it to compile from source? As I'm wondering if it would be easier to do that...

[richard42]

It's not too hard to compile from source with visual studio. There must be some DLL dependency which is missing from our binary build. You could also use this tool called "Dependency Walker" to find the missing dependent library.

[Jj0YzL5nvJ]

All the latest WIPs work with Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2015-2019

mupen64plus-core (mupen64plus.dll)
mupen64plus-ui-console
mupen64plus-audio-sdl
mupen64plus-input-sdl
mupen64plus-rsp-cxd4
mupen64plus-rsp-hle
mupen64plus-video-glide64mk2
mupen64plus-video-rice

From 3rd party:
mupen64plus-video-angrylion-plus
mupen64plus-video-GLideN64