ntdll.dll Entry Point Not Found When Starting Release Build

[Craig6213]

I'm using the latest update of Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition. When I build my application in Debug Mode it starts and runs fine. When I build it in Release mode I get the "Failed to Activate" dialog box when the application starts.

I start the Release executable with debugging and get the output below. It suggests that there may be a problem loading ntdll.dll. I don't have the problem with the Debug mode build.

I'm using the Intel Math Kernel Library. When I comment out the code statement that calls the Intel library functions and rebuild the Release build starts and runs fine.

Thank you in advance for your help.

'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'D:\cpodc\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Projects\OptionChains\Release\OptionChains\AppX\OptionChains.exe'. Symbols loaded.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll'.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\kernel32.dll'.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\KernelBase.dll'.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\combase.dll'.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ucrtbase.dll'.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\rpcrt4.dll'.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sspicli.dll'.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cryptbase.dll'.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\bcryptprimitives.dll'.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\sechost.dll'.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'D:\cpodc\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Projects\OptionChains\Release\OptionChains\AppX\mkl_intel_thread.dll'. Module was built without symbols.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'D:\cpodc\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Projects\OptionChains\Release\OptionChains\AppX\mkl_core.dll'. Module was built without symbols.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00_14.0.27810.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\vccorlib140_app.dll'.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\oleaut32.dll'.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msvcp_win.dll'.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00_14.0.27810.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\msvcp140_app.dll'.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00_14.0.27810.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe\vcruntime140_app.dll'.
'OptionChains.exe' (Win32): Loaded 'D:\cpodc\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Projects\OptionChains\Release\OptionChains\AppX\libiomp5md.dll'.
Exception thrown at 0x779736F0 (ntdll.dll) in OptionChains.exe: 0xC0000139: Entry Point Not Found.
The thread 0xb228 has exited with code -1073741511 (0xc0000139).
The thread 0xb60c has exited with code -1073741511 (0xc0000139).
The program '[47912] OptionChains.exe' has exited with code -1073741511 (0xc0000139) 'Entry Point Not Found'.
Activation of the Windows Store app 'dffa959c-26eb-4458-bbbf-121a495b55e6_cr7g6hw6ky1ca!App' failed with error 'The app didn't start'.

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