Re: [Mingw-users] "winspool.dll was not found" error on startup after upgrading to gcc 4.8.1

[Wayne S. <sta...@ve...>]

On 9/7/2013 6:31 PM, Nathan Ridge wrote:
>> On 9/7/2013 3:42 AM, Nathan Ridge wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> After upgrading from MinGW GCC 4.7.2 to 4.8.1 and
>>> recompiling a program with 4.8.1, the program gives
>>> the following error on startup:
>>>
>>> "The application has failed to start because
>>> winspool.dll was not found. Re-installing the
>>> application may fix this problem."
>>>
>>> The program ran just fine before the compiler upgrade.
>>>
>>> Any ideas as to what is going wrong here? My operating
>>> system is Windows XP 64-bit edition, SP2. I don't have
>>> a file called winspool.dll anywhere on my computer.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Nate
>>
>>
>> Once I got wxWidgets to build I got this one as well building KiCad on
>> 64 bit windows 7.
> 
> My program uses wxWidgets too. Hmm...
> 
> Were you able to work around or solve this problem somehow?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nate 		 	   		  

Sorry Nate.  I haven't had a chance to look into it any further I had
some other KiCad work that I need to get done.  However, this problem
did not exist with version 3 of the w32api and gcc 4.7.2 so it would
appear that either w32api or one of the gcc libraries is pulling in
winspool.  When I get a chance I'll run a dependency check and see who
the guilty party is.