Is there a tool like Dependency Walker that can be run on a Windows CE 6.5 mobile device?

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I am trying to port an application from eMbedded Visual C++ 4.0 to Visual Studio 2008, and trying to get it to work with a Windows Embeded Handheld (6.5 Professional).

I have the compiler errors all fixed, but now I am runnning into an error that pops up when VS2008 trys to run debug mode on the deployed exe on the device. I am getting the error: Unable to start program '%CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES%\APP_NAME\APP.exe'. An error occurred that usually indicates a corupt installation (code 0x8007007e). If the problem persists, repair your visual studio installation via 'Add or Remove Programs' in your Control Panel

This is evidently an error associated with missing DLL files, which I have found and fixed a couple, but there seems to be more. I was wondering if there was a tool like Dependency Walker that can be run on a Windows CE 6.5 mobile device. It would make finding missing DLLs much easier.

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if that is really a dependency problem you will find it on device running PEInfo (Freeware: http://s-k-tools.com/index.html?m_util.html). Copy/install PEInfo to device and then start it and select File/Open and open the exe file. PEInfo checks the imports and verifies the load of the referenced DLLs (is loadable). PEInfo is really a good freeware tool to anlyze such load problems.

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There isn't one that I'm aware of, but depends.exe on the desktop can inspect device files. It usually gets confused when it hits the coredll.dll dependency, but you know that coredll has no dependencies on anything else, so it's a non-issue.