XP Deploying issues due to msvcr90.dll trying to load FlsAlloc

I have an application build with VS2008 SP1a (9.0.30729.4148) on Windows 7 x64 that does not want to start under XP.

The message is The application failed to initialize properly (0x80000003). Click on OK to terminate the application.. I checked with depends.exe and found that msvcr90.dll does try to load FlsAlloc from KERNEL32.dll - and FlsAlloc is available only starting with Vista. I'm sure it is not use开发者_高级运维d by the application.

How to solve the issue?

The SxS package is already installed on the target machine - In fact I have all 3 versions of 9.0 SxS (initial release, sp1, and sp1+security patch)

Application is compiled with _BIND_TO_CURRENT_VCLIBS_VERSION=1

Also I defined the right target Windows version on stdafx.h

 #define WINVER 0x0500
 #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500

Manifest file

<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
 <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
 <security>
 <requestedPrivileges>
  <requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false" /> 
  </requestedPrivileges>
  </security>
  </trustInfo>
 <dependency>
 <dependentAssembly>
  <assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.VC90.CRT" version="9.0.30729.4148" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b" /> 
  </dependentAssembly>
  </dependency>
 <dependency>
 <dependentAssembly>
  <assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.VC90.MFC" version="9.0.30729.4148" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b" /> 
  </dependentAssembly>
  </dependency>
</assembly>

Result from depends

Started "c:\program files\app\app.EXE" (process 0xA0) at address 0x00400000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\NTDLL.DLL" at address 0x7C900000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\KERNEL32.DLL" at address 0x7C800000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\program files\app\MFC90.DLL" at address 0x785E0000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\program files\app\MSVCR90.DLL" at address 0x78520000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\USER32.DLL" at address 0x7E410000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\GDI32.DLL" at address 0x77F10000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\SHLWAPI.DLL" at address 0x77F60000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL" at address 0x77DD0000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\RPCRT4.DLL" at address 0x77E70000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\SECUR32.DLL" at address 0x77FE0000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\MSVCRT.DLL" at address 0x77C10000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\COMCTL32.DLL" at address 0x5D090000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\MSIMG32.DLL" at address 0x76380000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\SHELL32.DLL" at address 0x7C9C0000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\OLEAUT32.DLL" at address 0x77120000. Successfully hooked module. Loaded "c:\windows\system32\OLE32.DLL" at address 0x774E0000. Successfully hooked module. Entrypoint reached. All implicit modules have been loaded. DllMain(0x78520000, DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH, 0x0012FD30) in "c:\program files\app\MSVCR90.DLL" called. GetProcAddress(0x7C800000 [c:\windows\system32\KERNEL32.DLL], "FlsAlloc") called from "c:\program files\app\MSVCR90.DLL" at address 0x78543ACC and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127). GetProcAddress(0x7C800000 [c:\windows\system32\KERNEL32.DLL], "FlsGetValue") called from "c:\program files\app\MSVCR90.DLL" at address 0x78543AD9 and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127). GetProcAddress(0x7C800000 [c:\windows\system32\KERNEL32.DLL], "FlsSetValue") called from "c:\program files\app\MSVCR90.DLL" at address 0x78543AE6 and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127). GetProcAddress(0x7C800000 [c:\windows\system32\KERNEL32.DLL], "FlsFree") called from "c:\program files\app\MSVCR90.DLL" at address 0x78543AF3 and returned NULL. Error: The specified procedure could not be found (127).

I should mention that I have Windows SDK 7 installed and configured as default SDK.

I always embed the manifest in my DLLs and have never had a problem. I only ran into a problem when I forgot to embed the manifest. Then it fails to find the MSVCR90.dll on Windows 2008, but it works on older versions of Windows, which confused me for a while.

Manifest tool is really buggy and the only reliable solution was to not embed the manifest into the binaries because embedding fails almost randomly. Keeping the manifest outside is ugly but at least always works.