Windows 7 plugin won't load.

[Ibrahim Awwal]

I'm not a pidgin developer or anything, but is it possible that you built
the plugin under cygwin and thus it needs the cygwin dll to function?
--Ibrahim Awwal


On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Daniel Atallah <daniel.atallah at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 16:24, Daniel Grubbs <dgrubbs at dexrex.com> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > I've got a pidgin plugin with a mysterious problem.  It runs fine if I
> start
> > pidgin from a cygwin command prompt, but it won't load if I start pidgin
> > normally. The debug output is:
> >
> > (16:01:21) plugins: probing C:\Program Files
> > (x86)\Dexrex\DexrexPidginPlugin.dll
> > (16:01:21) plugins: C:\Program Files (x86)\Dexrex\DexrexPidginPlugin.dll
> is
> > not loadable: `C:\Program Files (x86)\Dexrex\DexrexPidginPlugin.dll': The
> > specified module could not be found.
> > (16:01:21) plugins: Unable to find saved plugin C:\Program Files
> > (x86)\Dexrex\DexrexPidginPlugin.dll
> >
> > It seems that the plugin is not being loaded correctly at
> > .\libpurple\plugin.c line 257:
> >
> > plugin->handle = g_module_open(filename, G_MODULE_BIND_LOCAL);
> >
> > I have tried putting the plugin in different locations such as:
> >
> > C:\Program Files (x86)\Pidgin\plugins\DexrexPidginPlugin.dll
> > C:\Users\Dan\AppData\Roaming\.purple\plugins\DexrexPidginPlugin.dll
> >
> > Again, it works fine if pidgin is started under cygwin.
> > I'm pretty sure this all used to work...  Ok, I just checked. It still
> works
> > fine on Windows Vista with Pidgin 2.5.4.  But it doesn't work on my home
> > machine with Windows 7 and Pidgin 2.5.6.  (I think it was some version
> like
> > that.  I'll check when I get home.)  So the problem seems to be just on
> > Windows 7.  (It also seems to work fine with Vista and Pidgin 2.7.3. I
> just
> > checked.)
> > Any ideas?
> > Dan Grubbs
>
> The problem is probably that some dependency of the plugin isn't being
> found.
>
> Using Dependency Tracker (http://www.dependencywalker.com/) on the
> plugin dll will show what it is linked to.
>
> -D
>
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