gssapi32.dll

[Benjamin Kaduk]

Hi Jeffery,

On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, Jeffery Dowell wrote:

> Ben -
>
> I used dependency walker to view the dependencies of gssapi32.dll (in
> MIT folder) on both a working install and a nonfunctional install. Both
> showed various errors which were nearly identical.

Thank you for doing this work, I really appreciate it.

> Only this DLL was different and missing on the nonfunctional install:
> API-MS-WIN-APPMODEL-RUNTIME-L1-1-0.DLL
> The rest of the messages below were the same.
> _______________________________________
> Error: At least one module has an unresolved import due to a missing export function in an implicitly dependent module.
> Error: Modules with different CPU types were found.
> Warning: At least one delay-load dependency module was not found.
> Warning: At least one module has an unresolved import due to a missing export function in a delay-load dependent module.
>
> API-MS-WIN-APPMODEL-RUNTIME-L1-1-0.DLL
> API-MS-WIN-CORE-WINRT-ERROR-L1-1-0.DLL
> API-MS-WIN-CORE-WINRT-L1-1-0.DLL
> API-MS-WIN-CORE-WINRT-ROBUFFER-L1-1-0.DLL
> API-MS-WIN-CORE-WINRT-STRING-L1-1-0.DLL
> API-MS-WIN-SHCORE-SCALING-L1-1-1.DLL
> DCOMP.DLL
> IESHIMS.DLL

Interestingly, google results for the
API-MS-WIN-APPMODEL-RUNTIME-L1-1-0.DLL search brings up a stackoverflow
page claiming that the tool is a bit out of date and reports false
positives for these libraries
(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17023419/win-7-64-bit-dll-problems) :(

> ___________________________________________
>
> Also, I installed Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables for 2005, 2008,
> 2010, 2012 in each of their 32bit and 64bit varieties.
>
> Alas the error still persists and has appeared on a couple more
> computers as the installation efforts continue.

Are you able to share a list of the software installed on the affected
machines?  (I mostly expect not, but it could give guidance into potential
library conflicts.)

> I installed a totally new Win7 with only SP1 (no software, no patches)
> and the install worked fine. Could it be that some other software is
> overwriting and changing an important version of DLL?

Fascinating.  I suppose that probably holds for SP1 with windows updates,
but it might be worth verifying.

The first thing that comes to mind would be WSHELP32.dll, a DNS helper
that is installed with KfW.

My notes from dumpbin.exe say that the recursive dependencies of
gssapi32.dll (not including libraries installed with KfW) are:
ADVAPI32.dll, DNSAPI.dll, GDI32.dll, KERNEL32.dll, SHELL32.dll,
Secur32.dll, USER32.dll, and WS2_32.dll (in addition to the C runtime).
ADVAPI32.dll and Secur32.dll stand out as being listed for delayed loading
(which may match your dependency walker output).  It's probably worth
checking the version/size/etc on those libraries between the working and
non-working machines.

Thank you for putting so much time into this; I know how frustrating it
can be.

-Ben