“dll not found” error in Visual Studio Express 2012

Question

I am trying to build a Windows Phone 8 app using cocos2d-x in Visual Studio Express 2012. My Test project compiles without error but while trying to run in emulator the following message is shown.

'Test.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'E:\programs\{2AC777CA-2D3B-41C8-98AC-B6ED1A4B0988}\Install\Test.exe'. Symbols loaded.
'Test.exe' (Win32): Loaded '\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Windows\System32\NTDLL.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'Test.exe' (Win32): Loaded '\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Windows\System32\KERNELBASE.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
'Test.exe' (Win32): Loaded '\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Windows\System32\WS2_32.DLL'. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
The thread 0x828 has exited with code -1073741515 (0xc0000135).
The program '[2084] Test.exe' has exited with code -1073741515 (0xc0000135) 'A dependent dll was not found'.

I have verified that the dll exists in "Windows\\System32".

Has anyone faced this issue before. How do I solve this problem. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I was getting similar error ('A dependent dll was not found') while running my application (cocos2d-x game) on windows10 (64-bit).

Solution -> I Uninstalled my app and then did a fresh installation from Visual Studio (2015). [Didn't need to re-install visual studio as mentioned in some other blogs.]

Possible Reason: There were some updates in windows10 by Microsoft lately, which may have altered some DLLs, and this could not be compatible with already installed application.