MGCB stopped working for me a couple of days ago.
I did update windows and repair visual studio - which probably can be one of the reasons.
When I try to build my content image files I get
I get something like
Importer ‘TextureImporter’ had unexpected failure!
System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL ‘FreeImage’: The specified module could not be
found.
One of the suggested solutions was to reinstall redistributables which did not work.
Reinstalling the mgcb-editor as well.
Any idea what else can work?
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After a few days of trawling though google with the same issue, i came across a DLL dependancy checker (“https://github.com/lucasg/Dependencies”) and it turns out that even though the FreeImage.dll was there and installed correctly on my machine, it relies on a few other DLL’s to work correctly:
- Vcomp140.dll
- WS2_32.dll
- kernel32.dll
in the end I was actually missing the “Vcomp140” DLL. the Redist for C++ VS 2015-2019 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads-2647da03-1eea-4433-9aff-95f26a218cc0) installs this and after a reboot the MGCB Editor was working fine.
Hopefully this helps you/future users out.
the MGCB Editor comes with the FreeImage.dll in its file directory if you want to use the DLL dependancy checker yourself.