Portable Freeware Submission • Re: PDFArranger (PDF changer utility)

I had tried to use PDFArranger v1.11.1 on Windows 7.
The program does not start and gives the following error:

- pdfarranger.exe - System error
X
The program cannot be started because
api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer. To solve the problem, try reinstalling the program.
OK
X

a check on StackOverflow clarified the problem: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66 ... -windows-7

Software based on Python 3.9 is not working on Windows 7
Errors around api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll and a such basically requires to install a particular vcredist_x86.exe/vcredist_x64.exe. But specifically that error in the Python 3.9 is because the DLL is a part of windows 8.

So this error is specific of Windows 7.

I followed StackOverflow's advice and went to GitHub on the repository by Alexandru Naiman for grab the hack that workaround the problem of missing DLL:
• GitHub repository api-ms-win-core-path-HACK: https://github.com/nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK
• GitHub download page: https://github.com/nalexandru/api-ms-wi ... /tag/0.3.1
• GitHub direct download the archivde 'api-ms-win-core-path-blender-0.3.1.zip': https://github.com/nalexandru/api-ms-wi ... -0.3.1.zip

This hack is based on Wine source code https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/ ... ase/path.c

Thet I have extracted the DLL contained in 'x64' folder and launched PDFArranger v1.11.1.
PDFArranger v1.11.1 now works perfectly.

Statistics: Posted by rbon — Sat Jan 04, 2025 7:59 am

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