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PSPP-BUG: PSPP not compatible with Win XP anymore
From: |
bugzillus |
Subject: |
PSPP-BUG: PSPP not compatible with Win XP anymore |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:03:35 +0100 |
OS: Windows XP SP3 32-bit
Installation of pspp-20181109-daily-32bits-setup.exe (1.2.0) and
pspp-20200117-daily-32bits-ForTestingOnly-setup.exe (1.3.0 nightly) works, but
running of the PSPP application is not possible:
0.10.2-g654fff seems to install and run properly.
1.2.0 fails on startup: "dwmapi.dll" not found
1.3.0 nightly fails on startup: "GetFileInformationByHandleEx" not found in
kernel32.dll
In both cases, deinstallation via uninstall.exe fails: Deletion of files starts
regularly with expected speed, then after a few seconds slows down extremely to
like 1-4 files per second, while un_a.exe causes a steady CPU load of 25 %.
After killing the uninstall task, deletion of the remaining 950 files with
Windows Explorer completes within 3 seconds.
As dwmapi.dll was propably introduced with Vista and
GetFileInformationByHandleEx might have been changed in Vista, I assume that
the incompatibility might be related to changes in the Win platform SDK used
for compiling, or some constant/value is used which is not supported on WXP,
cf.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/minwinbase/ne-minwinbase-file_info_by_handle_class
Thanks for looking into it. Cheers!
- PSPP-BUG: PSPP not compatible with Win XP anymore,
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