Subj : Error 0xc000007b
To : Bf2k+
From : Wang Bu
Date : Sat Aug 30 2025 09:30 am
Re: Error 0xc000007b
By: Bf2k+ to MRO on Fri Aug 29 2025 09:15 pm
> Re: Error 0xc000007b
> By: MRO to Bf2k+ on Fri Aug 29 2025 09:51 pm
>
> > well do what rob says and collect the error msgs in the console.
>
> I'd love to. But if I understand you correctly, the 'console' is the
> Synchronet Control panel and it never loads. The errors pops up upon
> execution and immediately shuts down.
>
> I could load Process Monitor, run sbbs and then capture that PM log and send
> that. Would that help?
I think I had a similar issue while I was installing SBBS on a Windows 11 Insider Preview on a virtual machine.
I did a couple of experiments, but what I found out was I was installing the wrong version of the VC redist files; you should download and install the x86 instead of the x64 ones (but in my case, I just installed both; they installed together nicely and I didn't have problems with my SBBS executables.)
When I was still had the x64 version installed, I wondered why the dll files are not found even though I saw the .dll files in C:\Windows\System32; then I tried copying the said DLL files in the C:\Sbbs\Exec directory, and an error similar to that occurred, regardless of the SBBS executable I run (sbbsctrl.exe, sbbs.exe, jsexec.exe).
After installing the x86 version, and deleting the .dll files in C:\Sbbs\Exec, it started working.
Could you confirm that you have only installed the dll files via the Microsoft installer, and not copied arbitrarily the .dll files to your SBBS installation directories?
