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title: "Resolving Error 1918, System Error Code 126, When Installing MySQL ODBC Driver"
publish_date: 2014-04-17
author: "MariaDB"
---

# Resolving Error 1918, System Error Code 126, When Installing MySQL ODBC Driver

If you are installing MySQL ODBC Driver and encounter the following error:

```

Error 1918. Error installing ODBC driver MySQL ODBC 5.1 Driver, 
ODBC error 13: The setup routines for the MySQL ODBC 5.1 Driver 
could not be loaded due to system error code 126: 
The specified module could not be found. 
...myodbc5S.dll).. Verify...
```

Then you will need to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (select the appropriate one for your OS architecture below): **64-bit version:** <http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=14632> **32-bit version:** <http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=5555> After installing that, then re-attempt installing the MySQL ODBC connector, and things should work smoothly. Hope this helps.