Krom will not start on Windows 7

luboslenco commented 6 years ago

Throws api-ms-win-core-console-l2-1-0.dll is missing.

Installing VC 2015/2017 Redist does not help
Latest Windows Update does not help
In VS we have Code Generation - Runtime Library set to Multi-threaded which I thought would prevent this

(tag https://github.com/armory3d/armory/issues/862)

luboslenco commented 6 years ago

Tried to build regular ChakraCore and the resulting ch.exe seems to run ok on Windows 7. But that is of course with chakracore.dll.

Maybe Krom somehow pulls in some api which is not available on Windows 7 or something.

luboslenco commented 6 years ago

My current suspect is linking the Mincore lib at

https://github.com/Kode/ChakraCore/blob/49775875320d2a1daa4b86ca3436517d99541f85/Build/korefile.js#L112

I tried linking Mincore_downlevel but that did not help. From this Microsoft Docs page:

Compatibility with Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and older operating systems: Binaries that link to MinCore.lib or MinCore_Downlevel.lib are not designed to work on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or earlier. Binaries that need to run on earlier versions of Windows or Windows Server must not use either MinCore.lib or MinCore_Downlevel.lib.

luboslenco commented 6 years ago

Fix attempt at https://github.com/Kode/ChakraCore/pull/1.

Kode / Krom

Krom will not start on Windows 7 #92