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

[Uwe Ligges]

If you need some details, perhaps simply ask Michael Lawrence.
He certainly knows better than most readers what the issues are, or at 
least were when RGtk2 got archived.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

On 12.02.2023 17:37, David Sterratt wrote:
> On Sat, 2023-02-11 at 18:11 +0300, 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.
> 
> Thank you for looking at this. I tried removing -lnetio, but package
> didn't install at all on Windows 10.
> 
>> 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.)
> 
> I looked at the Dependency Walker, but it was giving me many messages
> about missing DLLs with names like:
> 
>    API-MS-WIN-CORE-STRING-L2-1-0.DLL  Error opening file. The system
> cannot find the file specified (2).
> 
> These libraries seem to be part of the UCRT system. However, when
> looked at the DLL of a package that *did* load in Dependency Walker, I
> got the same messages, so I think the path to the UCRT files may be
> missing.
> 
> Dependency Walker did seem to find:
> 
>    c:\windows\system32\WINSPOOL.DRV
> 
> For NETIO.SYS it gave the " Error opening file. The system cannot find
> the file specified (2)." There was also this table in the output.
> 
>       [ ? ] NETIO.SYS
> 
>            Import  Ordinal  Hint          Function                Entry
> Point
>            ------  -------  ------------  ----------------------  ------
> -----
>            [CE ]       N/A    4 (0x0004)  CancelMibChangeNotify2  Not
> Bound
>            [CE ]       N/A   79 (0x004F)  GetIpForwardTable2      Not
> Bound
>            [CE ]       N/A  364 (0x016C)  NotifyRouteChange2      Not
> Bound
>            [CE ]       N/A  529 (0x0211)  if_nametoindex          Not
> Bound
> 
> If you're really interested, I can send you the output, but from what
> Uwe says, I'm wondering if this is a lost cause!
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> David.
> 
> 
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