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I tried to compile a simple "hello world" program in C (using MinGW) from the command prompt and had the following error:

R6034 : An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly. Please contact the application's support team for more information.

I've done a couple searches on the subject and there seems to be a consensus on stray mscvr files placed in the path variable by other programs.

I've downloaded Process Explorer and tried to find any such files, but the msvcr files that I find (msvcr80 and msvcrt) are all loaded from the system32 folder.

This is what I have in my system path: 

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2008a\bin\win32;c:\mingw\bin.

Any help on how to solve the problem would be appreciated.

Sylvain Rodrigue
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Dave
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  • Msvcr80.dll should *not* be present in c:\windows\system32. It can only live in the side-by-side cache, c:\windows\winsxs directory. Remove that DLL. It is otherwise *very* unclear how a "hello world" program could have a dependency on it. – Hans Passant Dec 03 '14 at 15:07
  • thanks. I finally figured out what was wrong. Matlab was the culprit; taking it out of my path solved the problem! :) – Dave Dec 03 '14 at 15:57
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    Perhaps you should convert your comment into an answer? – Joseph Quinsey Dec 03 '14 at 16:52

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I finally figured out what was wrong. Matlab was the culprit; taking it out of my path solved the problem! :) – Dave

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