module unsafe for SAFESEH image C++
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Question
I am using Microsoft Visual Studio 2011 Professional Beta
I am trying to run the OpenCV C++ files (http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/Welcome) that I have compiled using cMake & the Visual Studio Complier.
However when I go to debug the project I get 600+ errors most of them being:
error LNK2026: module unsafe for SAFESEH image.
Apparently these files are in the opencv_ffmpeg project but I couldn't find them, I have had a look at the safeseh Safe Exception Handlers page on the Microsoft help page but I couldn't find any definitive answers.
I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if they managed to fix it.
Solution
From the comments:
This happens when you link an .obj or .lib that contains code created by an earlier version of the compiler. Which of course would be common if you downloaded a binary for opencv_ffmpeg instead of the source. You can turn the linker option off but then you'll still have a CRT version incompatibility that can byte. Rebuild the library from source. – Hans Passant May 15 at 13:01
Thanks for the help, it worked – Aaron Thompson May 17 at 14:50
OTHER TIPS
Disabling option "Image has Safe Exception Handlers" in Project properties -> Configuration Properties -> Linker -> Advanced tab helped me.
If you got this error while building ZLIB in Visual Studio here is the solution. Look for contrib\masmx86\bld_ml32.bat
and add /safeseh
as a option
Before
ml /coff /Zi /c /Flmatch686.lst match686.asm
ml /coff /Zi /c /Flinffas32.lst inffas32.asm
After
ml /safeseh /coff /Zi /c /Flmatch686.lst match686.asm
ml /safeseh /coff /Zi /c /Flinffas32.lst inffas32.asm
Other way is to add some SEH handler (empty for example) to asm files and compile them with /safeseh
option, then compile other code normally with /SAFESEH:YES
compiler option.
Empty SEH handler:
.safeseh SEH_handler
SEH_handler proc
;handler
ret
SEH_handler endp
Your mileage may vary, but none of the above suggestions worked for me (although I did not try rolling my own asm exception handler).
What did work was to select build target Release/x64.
I am running Windows 10 on a 64-bit machine, and using Visual Studio 2015.
The target Release/Win32 works, too. I guess the main thing is to pick "Release".