[R-pkg-devel] Unable to load Windows NETIO.SYS and WINSPOOL.DRV DLLs

[Uwe Ligges]

Note that Gtk2 is end of life, Gtk4 was released 3 years ago already.
There are reasons why neither the former RGtk2 maintainer nor the CRAN 
team decided to maintain RGtk2 further on.

Best,
Uwe Ligges



On 11.02.2023 16:11, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2023 11:19:42 +0000
> David Sterratt <David.C.Sterratt using ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> WinDbg output reveals errors loading "NETIO.SYS" and "WINSPOOL.DRV"
>> when running "library(RGtk2)":
>>
>>     0c64:0640 @ 44312812 - LdrpProcessWork - ERROR: Unable to load DLL:
>> "NETIO.SYS", Parent Module: "C:\Users\David
>> Sterratt\AppData\Local\R\win-library\4.3\RGtk2\libs\x64\RGtk2.dll",
>> Status: 0xc0000135
>>     ...
>>     0c64:1e5c @ 44312812 - LdrpProcessWork - ERROR: Unable to load DLL:
>> "WINSPOOL.DRV", Parent Module: "C:\Users\David
>> Sterratt\AppData\Local\R\win-library\4.3\RGtk2\libs\x64\RGtk2.dll",
>> Status: 0xc0000135
> 
> The failure to load WINSPOOL.DRV is perplexing (it should normally be
> possible to load as it's a system DLL that applications are supposed to
> link against in order to be able to print), but NETIO.SYS should
> probably be absent from the import list. At least it seems to be linked
> against some kernel-related stuff that shouldn't be reachable from
> userspace applications.
> 
> By removing -lnetio from PKG_LIBS, I was able to load the package and
> run some example code from the JSS article, but then Rgui.exe crashed
> on exit. I'm running R-4.2.2 and Rtools43 on a Windows 7 machine, which
> could also be a source of the difference.
> 
> Does the Dependency Walker <https://dependencywalker.com/> provide you
> any useful information about the package DLL besides what you already
> know? (Some warnings deep in the dependency tree are to be expected.
> R.DLL is not on the PATH so won't be automatically found, but other
> dependencies should exist.)
> 
> 
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