"DLL Initialization failed" library using Rhino SDK C++

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I have an executable library (.EXE) to which a DLL library is linked. The DLL library is linked to the Rhino C++ SDK. I’ve narrowed it down, and linking the executable to this library when the dependency to the Rhino SDK is removed works perfectly.
Both are built under /MD /RTC1 and that uses MFC in a shared DLL and the Unicode Character Set.

The exe is basically a console subsystem for the unit tests and is also linked to GTest. The DLL is compiled with the following flags as well: -D_UNICODE -U_MBCS with the following preprocessor macros: _AFXDLL, WIN64, _WINDOWS, NDEBUG, _USRDLL . When I use an object from the DLL (an object to be tested from that library), and run the executable, the program crashes with the following error:

The program has exited with code -1073741502 (0xc0000142) 'DLL Initialization Failed'.

I’m running out of ideas as to why this is happening, is there anything specific about including a DLL library using the Rhino SDK in to a console executable? Thanks

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Hi @blondbeer,

The Rhino C++ SDK can only used to build C++ plug-ins for Rhino. You can not use it to build a standalone .exe, as the SDK libraries are dependent on Rhino.exe.

That said, what are you looking to do in a console application?

– Dale

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Thank you for your reply @dale
I have a DLL library that uses the SDK and contains low-level logic code of the application and its architecture. I want to unit test objects from that library, so basically I’m linking it the exe console app to access those objects.
What’s the best practice to do that?

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We don’t currently have a good way to do something like this from C++. We had had success with using .NET testing frameworks to test .NET plugin code, but not c++.