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  • hskoglundH Offline
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    hskoglund
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    #5

    You can try this workaround, place it on top of mainwindow.h:

    #define sprintf_s _snprintf
    

    For a long-term solution, it might be safer to use MSVC2013 instead of MinGW49_32.

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    • jsulmJ jsulm

      @LeLev I think this DLL is from "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime". You could try to update it from here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads

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      ODБOï
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      #6

      @jsulm ok thank you
      normally i am not supposed to do any updates/changes in the system but i will see it with my hierarchical superior i guess...

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      • hskoglundH hskoglund

        You can try this workaround, place it on top of mainwindow.h:

        #define sprintf_s _snprintf
        

        For a long-term solution, it might be safer to use MSVC2013 instead of MinGW49_32.

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        #7

        @hskoglund hi,

        @hskoglund said in Qt app for windows XP:

        #define sprintf_s _snprintf

        thank you for this suggestion
        This is a QtQuick QML application so i dont have mainwindow.h, i tryed to put that ligne in my main.cpp but i still have the error, Is there maybe a way to define it in my project file or somewhere else ?

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        • ODБOïO ODБOï

          @hskoglund hi,

          @hskoglund said in Qt app for windows XP:

          #define sprintf_s _snprintf

          thank you for this suggestion
          This is a QtQuick QML application so i dont have mainwindow.h, i tryed to put that ligne in my main.cpp but i still have the error, Is there maybe a way to define it in my project file or somewhere else ?

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          JonB
          wrote on last edited by JonB
          #8

          @LeLev
          I am not convinced you will be able to resolve this via compile-time #define. The implication of

          the procedure entry point sprintf_s could not be located in msvcrt.dll

          is that it might be being loaded dynamically via LoadLibraray()/GetProcAddress().

          Have you tried/are you allowed to try @jsulm's suggestion of getting a better version of msvcrt.dll? That would be preferable. How many copies of that file do you have on your system (there may be multiple), and what is their exact version (you can see that from File Explorer Properties)?

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          • hskoglundH Offline
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            wrote on last edited by
            #9

            Yeah, it's much better to put it the .pro file, try:

            DEFINES += "sprintf_s=_snprintf"
            
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            • JonBJ JonB

              @LeLev
              I am not convinced you will be able to resolve this via compile-time #define. The implication of

              the procedure entry point sprintf_s could not be located in msvcrt.dll

              is that it might be being loaded dynamically via LoadLibraray()/GetProcAddress().

              Have you tried/are you allowed to try @jsulm's suggestion of getting a better version of msvcrt.dll? That would be preferable. How many copies of that file do you have on your system (there may be multiple), and what is their exact version (you can see that from File Explorer Properties)?

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              ODБOï
              wrote on last edited by ODБOï
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              @JonB said in Qt app for windows XP:

              Have you tried/are you allowed to try @jsulm's suggestion of getting a better version of msvcrt.dll?

              my superior will be back on Monday so sadely i can't try that for the moment..

              @JonB said in Qt app for windows XP:

              How many copies of that file do you have on your system

              i found one in folder c:\windows\system32 , the version is 7.0.2600.5512
              not sure how to search/find the others, im trying to find out
              edit: searching in progress using XP search tool

              i have 5 in total :
              versions
              7.0.2600.5512
              7.0.2600.0
              7.0.2600.5512
              6.0.8337.0

              @hskoglund said in Qt app for windows XP:

              DEFINES += "sprintf_s=_snprintf"

              unfortunately this still does not solve the issue

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              • ODБOïO ODБOï

                @JonB said in Qt app for windows XP:

                Have you tried/are you allowed to try @jsulm's suggestion of getting a better version of msvcrt.dll?

                my superior will be back on Monday so sadely i can't try that for the moment..

                @JonB said in Qt app for windows XP:

                How many copies of that file do you have on your system

                i found one in folder c:\windows\system32 , the version is 7.0.2600.5512
                not sure how to search/find the others, im trying to find out
                edit: searching in progress using XP search tool

                i have 5 in total :
                versions
                7.0.2600.5512
                7.0.2600.0
                7.0.2600.5512
                6.0.8337.0

                @hskoglund said in Qt app for windows XP:

                DEFINES += "sprintf_s=_snprintf"

                unfortunately this still does not solve the issue

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                JonB
                wrote on last edited by JonB
                #11

                @LeLev said in Qt app for windows XP:

                i found one in folder c:\windows\system32 , the version is 7.0.2600.5512

                Based on nothing, my Windows 7 one is 7.0.7601.17704, dated 16/12/2011. It shows there does at least exist a later one, though how that relates to XP I don't know.

                If you know how to use a tool to look at what functions are in/exported from a DLL, you could verify that sprintf_s is indeed missing in yours.

                normally i am not supposed to do any updates/changes in the system but i will see it with my hierarchical superior i guess...

                I still maintain that the most likely is the SO post I pointed you at earlier. I point you at https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/xp-sp3-update-021319-posready-2009-caused-a/d4546883-2d07-4688-b00d-4c74801b65cb or https://community.teamviewer.com/t5/General-Questions/XP-and-Teamviewer/td-p/54530 too, which I think is the same thing. At least whether you have those patches? Show this to your "hierarchical superior" :)

                Otherwise, it could be a MinGW issue. Can't find exact match, but https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30590421/qt-5-4-0-deployment-issue-missing-vsprintf-s-in-msvcrt-dll/32320444.

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                • JonBJ JonB

                  @LeLev said in Qt app for windows XP:

                  i found one in folder c:\windows\system32 , the version is 7.0.2600.5512

                  Based on nothing, my Windows 7 one is 7.0.7601.17704, dated 16/12/2011. It shows there does at least exist a later one, though how that relates to XP I don't know.

                  If you know how to use a tool to look at what functions are in/exported from a DLL, you could verify that sprintf_s is indeed missing in yours.

                  normally i am not supposed to do any updates/changes in the system but i will see it with my hierarchical superior i guess...

                  I still maintain that the most likely is the SO post I pointed you at earlier. I point you at https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/xp-sp3-update-021319-posready-2009-caused-a/d4546883-2d07-4688-b00d-4c74801b65cb or https://community.teamviewer.com/t5/General-Questions/XP-and-Teamviewer/td-p/54530 too, which I think is the same thing. At least whether you have those patches? Show this to your "hierarchical superior" :)

                  Otherwise, it could be a MinGW issue. Can't find exact match, but https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30590421/qt-5-4-0-deployment-issue-missing-vsprintf-s-in-msvcrt-dll/32320444.

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                  ODБOï
                  wrote on last edited by ODБOï
                  #12

                  @JonB said in Qt app for windows XP:

                  you have those patches?

                  i try to see patches list using systeminfo.exe in terminal

                  it returns :

                  1 Hotfix installed : Q147222

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                  • ODБOïO ODБOï

                    @JonB said in Qt app for windows XP:

                    you have those patches?

                    i try to see patches list using systeminfo.exe in terminal

                    it returns :

                    1 Hotfix installed : Q147222

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                    ODБOï
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #13

                    downloading
                    http://download.qt.io/new_archive/qt/5.6/5.6.0/qt-opensource-windows-x86-msvc2013-5.6.0.exe.mirrorlist
                    to give it a try

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                    • ODБOïO ODБOï

                      downloading
                      http://download.qt.io/new_archive/qt/5.6/5.6.0/qt-opensource-windows-x86-msvc2013-5.6.0.exe.mirrorlist
                      to give it a try

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                      hskoglund
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #14

                      @LeLev Don't forget that line in your .pro file:

                      QMAKE_LFLAGS_WINDOWS = /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,5.01
                      

                      P.S. Just tried an empty vanilla Qt 5.6.3 MinGW49_32 QtQuick QML project (where you see Hello World in the middle of 640x480 window. Built on Windows 10 and tested on Windows XP, worked fine without that sprintf_s error, the msvcrt.dll on that Windows XP has version 7.0.2600.5512.

                      Anyway, since MSVC2013 is Microsoft own stuff, it's more likely to survive as the years go by :-)

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                      • hskoglundH hskoglund

                        @LeLev Don't forget that line in your .pro file:

                        QMAKE_LFLAGS_WINDOWS = /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,5.01
                        

                        P.S. Just tried an empty vanilla Qt 5.6.3 MinGW49_32 QtQuick QML project (where you see Hello World in the middle of 640x480 window. Built on Windows 10 and tested on Windows XP, worked fine without that sprintf_s error, the msvcrt.dll on that Windows XP has version 7.0.2600.5512.

                        Anyway, since MSVC2013 is Microsoft own stuff, it's more likely to survive as the years go by :-)

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                        wrote on last edited by
                        #15

                        @hskoglund said in Qt app for windows XP:

                        worked fine without that sprintf_s error, the msvcrt.dll on that Windows XP has version 7.0.2600.5512.

                        That should be interesting reading for @LeLev !

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                          That misbehaved update from Microsoft last year which caused the sprintf_s error, it seems not to have touched msvcrt.dll directly, but rather some other files, but msvcrt.dll got the raw deal :-(

                          msvcrt.dll is somewhat of an unwanted child from Microsoft's point of view, for example here's what Raymond Chen writes: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140411-00/?p=1273

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                          • hskoglundH hskoglund

                            That misbehaved update from Microsoft last year which caused the sprintf_s error, it seems not to have touched msvcrt.dll directly, but rather some other files, but msvcrt.dll got the raw deal :-(

                            msvcrt.dll is somewhat of an unwanted child from Microsoft's point of view, for example here's what Raymond Chen writes: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140411-00/?p=1273

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                            ODБOï
                            wrote on last edited by ODБOï
                            #17

                            guys thank you very much for help and thank you for your time

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                            • hskoglundH hskoglund

                              That misbehaved update from Microsoft last year which caused the sprintf_s error, it seems not to have touched msvcrt.dll directly, but rather some other files, but msvcrt.dll got the raw deal :-(

                              msvcrt.dll is somewhat of an unwanted child from Microsoft's point of view, for example here's what Raymond Chen writes: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140411-00/?p=1273

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                              @hskoglund said in Qt app for windows XP:

                              for example here's what Raymond Chen writes: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140411-00/?p=1273

                              a real nightmare the story of this dll, just like my day ^^

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                              • hskoglundH hskoglund

                                @LeLev Don't forget that line in your .pro file:

                                QMAKE_LFLAGS_WINDOWS = /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,5.01
                                

                                P.S. Just tried an empty vanilla Qt 5.6.3 MinGW49_32 QtQuick QML project (where you see Hello World in the middle of 640x480 window. Built on Windows 10 and tested on Windows XP, worked fine without that sprintf_s error, the msvcrt.dll on that Windows XP has version 7.0.2600.5512.

                                Anyway, since MSVC2013 is Microsoft own stuff, it's more likely to survive as the years go by :-)

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                                @hskoglund said in Qt app for windows XP:

                                Don't forget that line in your .pro file:
                                QMAKE_LFLAGS_WINDOWS = /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,5.01

                                i have error in compilation output saying
                                g++: error: /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,5.01: No such file or directory

                                if i add this to my pro file
                                QMAKE_LFLAGS_WINDOWS = /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,5.01

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                                  hskoglund
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                                  #20

                                  That line is only applicable if you use the MSVC2013 compiler

                                  Edit: to satisfy both compilers, we can use a prefix, change the line to

                                  win32-msvc:QMAKE_LFLAGS_WINDOWS = /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,5.01
                                  
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                                    @hskoglund said in Qt app for windows XP:

                                    QMAKE_LFLAGS_WINDOWS = /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,5.01

                                    oh ok! my bad, i was still trying with minGw

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                                      ODБOï
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                                      #22

                                      @hskoglund , @JonB

                                      apparently qt-opensource-windows-x86-msvc2013-5.6.0 that i just installed doas not configure kits automatically,

                                      i have no compiler and no debugger in the kit, so i cant compile the project

                                      do i have to download the compiler separately ? i dont see it in my qt 5.6 install dir C:\Qt\Qt5.6.0\5.6\msvc2013\bin nor in C:\Qt\Qt5.6.0\Tools\

                                      compiler column is empty here..
                                      https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-5.6/supported-platforms.html

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                                      • ODБOïO ODБOï

                                        @hskoglund , @JonB

                                        apparently qt-opensource-windows-x86-msvc2013-5.6.0 that i just installed doas not configure kits automatically,

                                        i have no compiler and no debugger in the kit, so i cant compile the project

                                        do i have to download the compiler separately ? i dont see it in my qt 5.6 install dir C:\Qt\Qt5.6.0\5.6\msvc2013\bin nor in C:\Qt\Qt5.6.0\Tools\

                                        compiler column is empty here..
                                        https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-5.6/supported-platforms.html

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                                        #23

                                        @LeLev try
                                        https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/

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                                        • hskoglundH hskoglund

                                          @LeLev try
                                          https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/older-downloads/

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                                          ODБOï
                                          wrote on last edited by ODБOï
                                          #24

                                          @hskoglund ok i will download vs2013 and try to use the c++ compiler from it
                                          thank you

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