VC++ Release Build Not Creating Menu

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June 28, 2023
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I created a plugin in VisualStudio 2022 Community Edition which adds a menu to Acrobat. The menu shows OK when I deploy the debug build. However, when I deploy the release build, the menu doesn't show in Acrobat.

The plugin has a unique name and there are no dependencies that I am aware of - the plugin reads some registry settings and executes an external exe based on the settings, that's all it does.

Any help would be appreciated.

Pete

Windows

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Brainiac

I don't think 10K is necessarily impossible. Nothing extra is linked. You say the menu doesn't show in Acrobat... I think you are thinking that the plug-in isn't loading at all (you are seeing no evidence of it, not just a missing menu). Ok, is this being deployed on the SAME machine that you used to test the debug build, or a different one? And, is it being deployed on the same machine as Visual Studio or a different one?

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PetejAuthor

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Same machine, yes and VS is installed.

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Brainiac

Ok, if it were me, I would add a MessageBox API call (NOT AVAlertNote) to the earliest part of PluginMain in my code. You can use this to see if the plug-in is actually loading (then failing) or if the Release build is not loading at all. You can verify the MessageBox works on on the Debug build first.