Re: Recent ODBC drivers possibly broken on XP - missing msvcrt dll

Hi,

Sorry, just to add to my message below, it seems I also needed to
copy msvcp100.dll to make the driver work properly (i.e. the driver
setup worked after copying msvcr100.dll but to actually use it I
also needed msvcp100.dll).

- David

On 21 May 2014 at 22:26, I wrote:

From: David Joffe <david(dot)joffe(at)tshwanedje(dot)com>
To: pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Recent ODBC drivers possibly broken on XP - missing
msvcrt dll
Date sent: Wed, 21 May 2014 22:26:00 +0200

> Hi,
>
> I installed the latest Windows PostgreSQL ODBC driver (17 May 2014
> 09_03_03) onto a test 32-bit XP SP3 system. When I tried to add a
> datasource, I got the error message:
>
> "The setup routines for the PostgreSQL Unicode ODBC driver could not
> be loaded due to system error code 126"
>
> Using dependency walker, I found the driver DLL to be missing
> "msvcr100.dll". I manually copied msvcr100.dll into '\Program
> Files\psqlODBC\0903\bin' and presto, the driver worked.
>
> To be clear, this is the 32-bit driver on a 32-bit system, so this
> is not the 64/32-bit issue.
>
> Looking back at earlier PostgreSQL ODBC driver releases, I see that
> up until the June 2013 driver, it seemingly included this DLL with
> the MSI installer, but the most recent driver releases it is not
> there. Evidently this seems to cause it to break on at least some XP
> systems (I assume not all of them or there would be more people
> complaining) - I'm not sure if it was intentional to break XP
> support, or if it's a bug? (I mean, of course XP is EOL'd, but is
> still on a sizable percentage of existing installed computers.)
> (Alternatively, perhaps it is something anomalous to this specific
> XP system, I'm not sure.)
>
> Regards,
>
> - David Joffe
>
>