# Extrude meshing question **URL:** \ **Category:** General Questions\ **Created:** [January 6, 2024, 12:46pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/extrude-meshing-question/1389 "2024-01-06T12:46:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Trevor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/258eb7/32.png) [@Trevor](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/Trevor)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/extrude-meshing-question/1389/21 "2024-01-10T21:10:12Z")
the following dll’s were added to the lib directory ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/prepomax/original/2X/4/4a8c38aa973f01eaae47cc0f40f59cc07aec717e.png) and msvcp140d.dll copied to msvcp140.dll vcruntime140d.dll copied to vcruntime140.dll and you need both of these to exist !! ---
**Author:** ![Matej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@Matej](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/Matej)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/extrude-meshing-question/1389/22 "2024-01-10T21:10:41Z")
Can you post the names of the missing files on your system so I can add them to the official release. ---
**Author:** ![Trevor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/258eb7/32.png) [@Trevor](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/Trevor)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/extrude-meshing-question/1389/23 "2024-01-10T21:11:24Z")
|Processor|Intel(R) N100 800 MHz| |Installed RAM|16.0 GB (15.8 GB usable)| |System type|64-bit operating system, x64-based processor| ---
**Author:** ![Trevor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/258eb7/32.png) [@Trevor](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/Trevor)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 9:42pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/extrude-meshing-question/1389/24 "2024-01-10T21:42:09Z")
Just to confirm these changes work for the v2.0.2 dev version also. ---
**Author:** ![Matej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@Matej](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/Matej)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 7:45am UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/extrude-meshing-question/1389/25 "2024-01-11T07:45:24Z")
Ok, looking into it the files api-ms-win-… should be installed by the Windows update [Update for Universal C Runtime in Windows - Microsoft Support](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-for-universal-c-runtime-in-windows-c0514201-7fe6-95a3-b0a5-287930f3560c) The d in the name msvcp140d.dll is for the Debug version of the files. But the main file msvcp140.dll is installed by the Visual C++ redistributables (either x86 or x64). Usually by some other program if the system is not freshlly installed. So I would have to look into why the debug versions were needed in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Trevor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/258eb7/32.png) [@Trevor](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/Trevor)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 8:02am UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/extrude-meshing-question/1389/26 "2024-01-11T08:02:29Z")
The api files and a concrt140.dll (renamed with a “d” were on my system . I did not download them but copied them from the windows system directory to the prepomax lib directory. ---
**Author:** ![lorebergo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@lorebergo](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/lorebergo)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 10:12pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/extrude-meshing-question/1389/27 "2024-02-06T22:12:29Z")
Good evening to every one, I am experiencing the same exact issue described above: in my case, I am using PPM 2.0.0 on Win 10. I tried with version 2.0.3 as well, nothing changed. Is there any solution? I tried to find the described dlls ( api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll, api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll, concrt140d.dll) without any success. thank you very much! ---
**Author:** ![Trevor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/258eb7/32.png) [@Trevor](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/Trevor)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/extrude-meshing-question/1389/28 "2024-02-07T14:21:37Z")
> **[missing dlls](https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/3ozfpb40ea6k5jbpgvc4k/h?rlkey=ay5f32yonq7d8rpw5vhny3woz&dl=0)** > > Shared with Dropbox ---
**Author:** ![Trevor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/258eb7/32.png) [@Trevor](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/Trevor)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/extrude-meshing-question/1389/29 "2024-02-07T17:44:36Z")
You may also find you’re missing dll’s to get ccx\_dynamic to run with all the solver options available. I point prepomax to use ccx\_static from [http://www.dhondt.de/calculix\_2.21\_4win.zip](http://www.dhondt.de/calculix_2.21_4win.zip) this however means you won’t get Pardiso, but Pastix seems to be quite popular and this will work. ---
**Author:** ![MisiaKu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@MisiaKu](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/MisiaKu)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 9:29am UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/extrude-meshing-question/1389/30 "2025-02-10T09:29:38Z")
Old topic. I had a similar problem. In Windows I had unnecessary files from an old version of GMSH. > [@When meshing solids, the "Quad-dominated" option does not work for me](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/when-meshing-solids-the-quad-dominated-option-does-not-work-for-me/2450/7): > > You are right. This option could be added, since the resulting meshes look nice. [Previous page](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/extrude-meshing-question/1389.md?page=1)