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Re: MinTTY requires gdiplus.dll ?
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 11:24 PM Houder <houder@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 2018-11-29 20:53, Michael Wild wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Nov 2018, 19:14 Houder <houder@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> [snip]
>
> >> Apparently MinTTY requires this DLL.
> >>
> >> Q: Should my system (Windows 7) have this DLL? (Is it present
> >> on your system?)
> [snip]
>
> > Hi
> >
> > GDI+ is a graphics and font rendering engine that has been part of
> > Windows
> > since XP. No surprise there.
> >
> > Michael
>
> Michael,
>
> Let us start at the beginning ...
>
> What is the location of the gdiplus.dll on your system?
>
> Do you have Windows 7?
>
> I cannot find gdiplus.dll on my system. Yes, I do not know what it is
> used
> for ... but that is irrelevant.
> (if Thomas Wolff thinks I should have it, that is fine with me :-)
>
> I invoked: sfc /scannow from a "Dos box", and it basically reported "All
> is
> fine!".
>
> So if gdiplus.dll is supposed to be present on Windows 7, it is, from
> _my_
> point of view, an useless tool.
>
> That why I asked: is it present on your system ?????
>
> Regards,
>
> Henri
>
Dear Henri
As most things important on Windows, it is here:
"C:\Windows\System32\GdiPlus.dll"
Cheers
Michael
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