how can i find what dll is missing, causing an app to fail starting ?

"Cannot find <application> (or one of its components). Make sure the path

> is there a way to find out what dll is missing, causing this error message
> when starting an application:
>
> "Cannot find <application> (or one of its components). Make sure the path
> and filename are correct and all the required libraries are available."
>
> we have had report that our application displays this message on the
> Audiovox 6600 (it works fine on all other Pocket PC's 2003/2003SE as far as
> we know).
>
> since this is the only device where this happens, we suspect that one of the
> system dll is either missing or incorrect on the Audiovox 6600, i.e. that it
> is a problem with the firmware of this particular device.
>
> is there a way (i.e. a log file of some sort) that we could look to figure
> out what dll is missing and preventing our app to start on this particular
> device?
>
>

> I'd suggest getting a list of dlls using depends.exe on the desktop, then
> write a quick app that verifies it can load them on the device (care of
> LoadLibrary()), then send that out to any users of the Audiovox

>> I'd suggest getting a list of dlls using depends.exe on the desktop, then
>> write a quick app that verifies it can load them on the device (care of
>> LoadLibrary()), then send that out to any users of the Audiovox
>
> thanks, yes, but this suppose that we have physical access to one of those
> device.

> i don't think we'll purchase such a now-getting-obsolete device just for
> debugging this issue, so i was looking for a way to get a more detailed
> error diagnostic from a log-file.
>
> it would be nice if MSFT could dump a small log-file in the volatile folder
> with more detailed error messages when this type of error occurs, like what
> is the name of dll missing, etc.