Win 7 exe: On launch, complains of missing dll(s)

[cgessai]

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.

[LostRuins]

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.

[NBcobo]

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.

[LostRuins]

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.