Thanks for the advice. I will keep my eyes open for other sources of the
error than missing DLLs.

For some reason I cannot profile the app in dependency walker. Profile |
Start Profiling... is grayed out, so it won't let me start a profiling
operation.

On 12/22/2016 11:00 AM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> "Matthew A. Postiff" <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I'm stuck trying to figure out a crash that I think is related to a
>> missing DLL. One clue is that my application worked fine, but then some
>> upgrades in msys/mingw32 did something underneath my app that is
>> activating the crash.
> If the application, freshly compiled, no longer works with msys/mingw32
> in the PATH, the "missing DLL" hypothesis looks weak to me.
>
> [snip]
>
>> Dependency Walker shows a few missing dlls, but they are
>> api-ms-win-core-*, dcomp.dll, and ieshims.dll, which I have determined
>> are not a problem for my application. I am quite sure of this because an
>> earlier edition of the program that still works (with an older edition
>> of msys2 from June 2016) and it shows the same depends errors.
> Use Dependency Walker in "tracing" mode, for detecting missing DLLs
> which are loaded by the program itself (rather by the OS linker): open
> you .exe with DW and use Profile to set a command line and run the
> executable. If any .DLL is missing, DW will report it.
>
> Also, https://github.com/achadwick/styrene may be of interest to you.
>
> But I think that your problem is not related to missing dlls.
>
> [sni]
>
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