Re: Specified driver could not be loaded

[Bogdan Degtyariov]

Hi Andrew,

I am glad to hear the ODBC driver is working for you now.
About the missing library IESHIMS.DLL.
The driver libraries myodbc5a.dll/myodbc5w.dll do not load it directly.
This dependency comes from the system library ADVAPI32.DLL, which loads CRYPTSP.DLL etc.
Here is the chain of dependencies:

myodbc5a.dll ->
c:\windows\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL ->
c:\windows\system32\CRYPTSP.DLL ->
c:\windows\system32\WINTRUST.DLL ->
c:\windows\system32\CRYPT32.DLL ->
c:\windows\system32\USERENV.DLL ->
c:\windows\system32\SHELL32.DLL ->
c:\windows\system32\SHDOCVW.DLL ->
c:\windows\system32\IEFRAME.DLL -> IESHIMS.DLL

advapi32.dll is a system library for advanced API services for APIs that perform security and registry calls. Nearly every executable and DLL on your computer need it. Since everything works I would not be too concerned about missing IESHIMS.DLL.
Anyway, IESHIMS.DLL is used for certain calls that handle protected mode for Internet Explorer, which most likely is not the usage case for your ODBC connections.