New issue maybe kernel32 related

[Mark Bannister]

I have one library that makes kernel32 calls.  That library no longer opens.  I’ve seen this happen before and restarting paradox makes it go away.

Now only two computers out of eight can run my application.  These two have not been restarted since this started.

I have been making network changes, I disabled smb1 on my Samba server and on the workstations.  I’m experimenting to see if this is feasible.  This should not affect this library.  The library is on the server, but it doesn’t open any database files.

Any thoughts?

[TheDBCommunity]

Windows update broke the call?

[Steven Green]

> Windows update broke the call?

that's always possible, of course.. but that would probably mean the dll itself (or whatever) has changed.. win10? win11? any meaningful error message?

I've noticed that my p11 is randomly throwing GP Aborts lately.. win10

[Randall Haines]

Could be the 64k limit on library size when calling a dll?

We use this in the library open to keep us compliant.

method open(var eventInfo Event)
;Automatically check to make sure libraries that use DLLs are not over 64k code size
var
compileInfoDY   Dynarray[]   AnyType
endvar
compileInformation(compileInfoDY)
;compileInfoDY.view()
if compileInfoDY["CodeSize"] > 65636 then ; 65536 = 64k
   msgStop(
   "Attention",
   "CodeSize of this library "+getFileName()+" exceeds 64k (currently "+string(compileInfoDY["CodeSize"])+" bytes).\n\n"+
   "Libraries that use DLLs can't be over 65536 bytes (64k) CodeSize. ")
endIf
endMethod

Regards,

Randy Haines

[Mark Bannister]

I’ll try it.  But it just started so kernel32 would have had to change.

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[Mark Bannister]

OK, kernel32 must have changed with the last windows update.

Because this library gets called by almost every other library, and indirectly most forms, I recompiled all libraries and forms (that's a bit of handy code if you haven't written it yet.)

[Steven Green]

good catch.. there's a ton of stuff in my System32 folder dated 2/13/2025, including kernel32

[Kevin Zawicki]

To clarify, recompiling corrected your issues?

[Mark Bannister]

Yes, just had to recompile all libraries and forms.