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Availability of DBGHELP.dll and COMCTL32.dll V4.71 for Windows NT PowerPC

Open red-ray opened this issue 5 months ago • 3 comments

After seeing this project and I was inspired to get my SIV utility running on Windows NT PowerPC, I felt it would not be that much work as SIV32A has been running on Windows Alpha since around 2010. In general I am making good progress, but would like DBGHELP.dll and COMCTL32.dll V4.71 for PowerPC, does anyone have them please?

Below you can see COMCTL32 is V4.70 when V4.71 is needed to support PBM_SETBARCOLOR. The linked information does not say this, the 2003 SDK information does:

Minimum DLL Version comctl32.dll version 4.71 or later Minimum operating systems Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 with Internet Explorer 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 4.0

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Later versions of the other .DLLs would also be appreciated.

I am also interested in getting feedback on how SIV32P does on other PowerPC systems, if you would like to help checkout My post on Vogons

red-ray avatar Aug 10 '25 08:08 red-ray

dbghelp is present in support\debug\ppc folder on NT 3.51/4.0 CD. as for later comctl32, good luck, it was never officially built for PowerPC.

Wack0 avatar Aug 10 '25 10:08 Wack0

Thank you for your reply, but if's not in support\debug\ppc on all the CDs I have. I have just rechecked all of 3.51 + 4.00 Workstation + 4.00 Workstation Checked + 4.00 Server. There are no DBGHELP.dll files at all.

All my disks are MSDN, is only on the retail disks?

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Update: After some checking I found that the DBGHELP.dll ImageNtHeader() function effectively just calls RtlImageNtHeader() which in in NTDLL.dll. I would still like DBGHELP.dll, but even without it after a one line change SIV32P does better.

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red-ray avatar Aug 10 '25 11:08 red-ray

oh right, got confused between dbghelp and imagehlp... dbghelp was introduced with newer windbg as I understand it, after PPC NT died, so I don't think dbghelp would exist for NT PPC either...

Wack0 avatar Aug 10 '25 14:08 Wack0