An installation problem

Hello everyone,

I have a weird problem with the new version of grasshopper. I have installed the Microsoft thingy and grasshopper 0.8.0051. I am getting the attached error message and I cannot load grasshopper anymore!

Rhino is unable to load DLL "rhcommon_c"

Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem?

Best,

Pirouz

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on September 24, 2011 at 6:38am

Hi Pirouz,

are you running this in Rhino4 or Rhino5?

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Pirouz Nourian on September 24, 2011 at 7:10am

Hi David,

I have Rhino 4.0 SR 9, 12_Aug_2010 (last updated); and I have windows XP professional, version 2002, Service Pack3.

Thanks for your care and support.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on September 24, 2011 at 8:35am

Peculiar... let's make sure the dll is actually there, then figure out why it isn't loading.

Can you find a file called rhcommon_c.dll in your Grasshopper install folder? Can you post a screenshot of where you found it?

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Pirouz Nourian on September 24, 2011 at 9:23am

Yes David, it is there. I have attached the screen shot of its place. BTW, I just re installed Rhino to make sure there is nothing wrong with it. However, before installation I chose the option repair for the .NET framework. Perhaps I should have chosen delete and re-install!

I'm still getting the same error message!

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dll_location.JPG, 134 KB
dll_location2.JPG, 98 KB

Permalink Reply by Pirouz Nourian on September 24, 2011 at 9:44am

Strange! I just made a copy of the missing DLL from the second location into the main grasshopper folder and it worked out and I am working with GH now.

However, I wanna let you know that there is still a minor warning (as seen in the attached image) I get before loading GH. After I press Yes, it opens up a 'windows form application' for a moment and then the empty form disappears. The only clue I have is that once I had created a form application in C# in an attempt for developing a Rhino Plugin. May be I've done something wrong at that time, like leaving a dll in a wrong location or displacing a folder. Perhaps you can prevent others from doing the same mistake.

Thank you very much for your time,

Pirouz

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