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Try LOAD_LIBRARY_SEARCH_DEFAULT_DIRS if fail #163

Closed mkitti closed 2 years ago

jheinen commented 2 years ago

According to my local tests, LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH with an absolute path did always work. This is the same method that is used in Julia. But we can add your patch as a fallback.

mkitti commented 2 years ago

I found a way to break LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH. If a program uses SetDefaultDllDirectories(LOAD_LIBRARY_SEARCH_DEFAULT_DIRS) then using LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH will fail:

julia> begin
           wchar = append!(transcode(UInt16, raw"libdSFMT.dll"), 0x0000)
           LOAD_LIBRARY_SEARCH_DEFAULT_DIRS = 0x1000
           LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH = 0x8
           status = @ccall "kernel32".SetDefaultDllDirectories(LOAD_LIBRARY_SEARCH_DEFAULT_DIRS::UInt32)::Bool # GR.jl v0.70.1
           handle = @ccall "kernel32".LoadLibraryExW(wchar::Ptr{UInt16}, C_NULL::Ptr{Nothing}, LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH::UInt32)::Ptr{Nothing} # Julia
           if handle == C_NULL
               println(Libc.FormatMessage())
           end
           handle
       end
The parameter is incorrect. 
Ptr{Nothing} @0x0000000000000000

This is why Plots.jl had a problem with GR 0.70.1.