api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll HACK

This is (extremely) hacky implementation of some of the functions in the original api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll which is needed during the installation of Windows SDK 10.0.14393.0 on Windows 7.

Description

As explained here, WinSDK 10.0.14393 fails to install correctly on Windows 7 because mdmerge.exe depends on api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll which AFAIK does not exist for Windows 7.

mdmerge.exe only imports PathCchCanonicalizeEx and PathCchRemoveFileSpec from api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll

So this project implements these 2 functions so that mdmerge.exe is able to run.

Installaion (tested on Win7-x64 only)

Clone and build it yourself or download a statically precompiled release.

• Option 1:
  After building copy the x64 dll to system32 and the x86 dll to SysWOW64.
• Option 2:
  Copy to the install directory where mdmerge.exe resides.
  By default it is C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\[x86|x64]

After the WinSDK setup installs successfully it might be safer to delete the hacky dlls from the system and hope that MS will fix this issue soon.

Reference

Windows SDK 10.0.14393.0 install fails on Windows 7
Failed to Install Win 10 SDK onto a Win 7 machine