Where exactly can I find api-ms-win-core-console-l3-2-0.dll?

Eric To 0

I've been looking left and right, here and there for the past 2 days trying to isolate/locate those dll files. But I cannot find it anywhere, none of the SDK have it anymore. I am trying to compile an app to work in Windows 7 environment (and possibility in XP too), using MSYS2 MINGW or UCRT both of them would ended up trying to call those dlls.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77685837/possible-to-force-msys2-mingw-to-build-without-ucrt?noredirect=1#comment136957848_77685837

So, how can I obtain those dlls??? I've downloaded Windows 7 SDK, Windows 10 SDK, searching for those dlls from Explorer...

RLWA32 42,476 Reputation points

2023-12-26T08:17:08.9533333+00:00

Some time has passed since we last heard from you. Are there any new developments? Have you tried to create your own dll that exports forwarders?

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RLWA32 42,476

There is no DLL file for that API Set contract. If you are not familiar with API Sets you can read up at Windows API sets. An important concept to understand is covered at Are API sets and dlls the same thing?.

You should carefully read the guidance at Identifying API sets for Win32 APIs. For each Windows API for which your development tools want to link with api-ms-win-core-console-l3-2-0.dll look up the API function documentation. If the table at the bottom of the page does not disclose an API set then the problem may reside in your development tools. For example, the documentation for GetLongPathNameA function requirements shows a dependency on kernel32.dll. No API Set is shown for this function.

RLWA32 42,476

If you cannot resolve how to create an executable that does not contain a dependency on this API set perhaps you can create your own dll by that name that contains nothing more than exported forwarders.

Update:

For example, from DLL exporting forwarders created using VS2022 -


Dump of file api-ms-win-core-console-l3-2-0.dll

File Type: DLL

  Section contains the following exports for api-ms-win-core-console-l3-2-0.dll

    00000000 characteristics
    FFFFFFFF time date stamp
        0.00 version
           1 ordinal base
          24 number of functions
          24 number of names

    ordinal hint RVA      name

          1    0          AddConsoleAliasA (forwarded to kernel32.AddConsoleAliasA)
          2    1          AddConsoleAliasW (forwarded to kernel32.AddConsoleAliasW)
          3    2          GetConsoleAliasA (forwarded to kernel32.GetConsoleAliasA)
          4    3          GetConsoleAliasExesA (forwarded to kernel32.GetConsoleAliasExesA)
          5    4          GetConsoleAliasExesLengthA (forwarded to kernel32.GetConsoleAliasExesLengthA)
          6    5          GetConsoleAliasExesLengthW (forwarded to kernel32.GetConsoleAliasExesLengthW)
          7    6          GetConsoleAliasExesW (forwarded to kernel32.GetConsoleAliasExesW)
          8    7          GetConsoleAliasW (forwarded to kernel32.GetConsoleAliasW)
          9    8          GetConsoleAliasesA (forwarded to kernel32.GetConsoleAliasesA)
         10    9          GetConsoleAliasesLengthA (forwarded to kernel32.GetConsoleAliasesLengthA)
         11    A          GetConsoleAliasesLengthW (forwarded to kernel32.GetConsoleAliasesLengthW)
         12    B          GetConsoleAliasesW (forwarded to kernel32.GetConsoleAliasesW)
         13    C          GetConsoleDisplayMode (forwarded to kernel32.GetConsoleDisplayMode)
         14    D          GetConsoleFontSize (forwarded to kernel32.GetConsoleFontSize)
         15    E          GetConsoleHistoryInfo (forwarded to kernel32.GetConsoleHistoryInfo)
         16    F          GetConsoleProcessList (forwarded to kernel32.GetConsoleProcessList)
         17   10          GetConsoleSelectionInfo (forwarded to kernel32.GetConsoleSelectionInfo)
         18   11          GetConsoleWindow (forwarded to kernel32.GetConsoleWindow)
         19   12          GetCurrentConsoleFont (forwarded to kernel32.GetCurrentConsoleFont)
         20   13          GetCurrentConsoleFontEx (forwarded to kernel32.GetCurrentConsoleFontEx)
         21   14          GetNumberOfConsoleMouseButtons (forwarded to kernel32.GetNumberOfConsoleMouseButtons)
         22   15          SetConsoleDisplayMode (forwarded to kernel32.SetConsoleDisplayMode)
         23   16          SetConsoleHistoryInfo (forwarded to kernel32.SetConsoleHistoryInfo)
         24   17          SetCurrentConsoleFontEx (forwarded to kernel32.SetCurrentConsoleFontEx)

  Summary

        1000 .data
        1000 .pdata
        2000 .rdata
        1000 .reloc
        1000 .text

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Where exactly can I find api-ms-win-core-console-l3-2-0.dll?

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