The support ticket mentioned over at Pidgin.im has a fix:
the liboscar.dll file is bad and needs replacement. They have uploaded a debug version of liboscar.dll in Pidgin ticket 6627, and it works with my setup. All you need to do is overwrite <Carrier>/liboscar.dll with the downloaded file.
The fix version of the dll is 1.6 megs, much larger than the current production version of the dll, because it was built with debugging.
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The support ticket mentioned over at Pidgin.im has a fix:
the liboscar.dll file is bad and needs replacement. They have uploaded a debug version of liboscar.dll in Pidgin ticket 6627, and it works with my setup. All you need to do is overwrite <Carrier>/liboscar.dll with the downloaded file.
The fix version of the dll is 1.6 megs, much larger than the current production version of the dll, because it was built with debugging.