There are two possibilities that I can think of...
1. depending on whether the trndll.dll is compiled in debug mode or release mode, it goes looking in external dlls in either the ..\Trnsys17\UserLib\DebugDLLs\ or the ..\Trnsys17\UserLib\ReleaseDLLs\ directory. It could be that on one machine, the TRNDll is compiled in one mode whereas it is compiled in the other mode on the students' machines. If you run the simulation on each machine and look at the *.log and *.lst files that are produced, you should find a "Notice" telling you where the TRNDll was looking for external DLLs. It is best if the TRNDll and external DLLs are all compiled in release mode.
2. even when the trndll and external dlls are compiled in release mode, they sometimes require access to some other DLLs that are only present on computers that have a compiler installed on them. These are the so-called Microsoft redistributable libraries. They are free and everything may work fine if you install them on the students' machines.
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/redistributable-libraries-for-the-intel-c-and-visual-fortran-composer-xe-for-windows
Best,
David
Hi Louis,
we faced the same problem some years ago, i think just after the release of v17. We fixed it by installing the compiler used for creating the component in the new computer, but I don't remember what was the reason. Probably we found the solution somewhere in the list archive. Hope it helps,
Angel
2013/5/15 <Louis.Lamarche@etsmtl.ca>
Hello
I created a new component in trnsys 17 and everything is working fine on my computer. The new types are well exported and I receive the message
“ The following types were loaded from newdll.dll”
When I give my .dll to my students, I put them in the userlib directory and I we receive the message
“ newdll.dll was found but did not contain any component “
And also error 105
105 : A TYPE was called in the TRNSYS input file but
was either not linked into trndll.dll or was not found in an external dll
Does anyone knows what can happen ? I saw somewhere that the trndll has to be rebuild but I did not rebuild it on my computer, nor did I had to rebuild it when I bought the type type460.dll ?
Thank you very much
Louis Lamarche
Professeur
Génie mécanique
Ecole de Technologie Supérieure
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