Closed cgessai closed 1 year ago
It seems like Windows 7 has other compatibility issues beyond koboldcpp - stuff like the pyinstaller python and other libraries are not working properly. I think supporting it will not be so easy.
Python 3.9 and above drops support for Windows 7. For the purpose of running gpt models, you may circumvent it by using the method provided by nalexandru / api-ms-win-core-path-HACK You can download the zip file api-ms-win-core-path-blender-0.3.1.zip from https://github.com/nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK/releases/tag/0.3.1 Then "copy the x86 dll into C:\Windows\SysWOW64 and the x64 dll into C:\Windows\System32", which seems counter intuitive but works. After this you may try the models provided by https://huggingface.co/Ejafa using oobabooga. That's all I can get so far. None of those ggml files works for me. Since the choice is so limited, I'll move to Windows 10 at last.
Yep I think suffice to say, it will be difficult to support windows 7 if even python has dropped support for it. I will leave the files I've already built up, but I don't think i'll be supporting windows 7 moving forward.
FWIW, I'm remoting into the Windows 7 machine using TightVNC but I've never had it cause issues with running program.
When running the windows 7 exe on a windows 7 machine, nothing happens for about 15 seconds then a dialog window will appear with the title of "koboldcpp_win7.exe - System Error" and body of "The program can't start because api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem." with an "OK" button.
However, in the CMD window which also appears is a different error: D:\GPT>koboldcpp_win7.exe Error loading Python DLL 'C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp_MEI41082\python39.dll'. LoadLibrary: The specified module could not be found.