blb2's comments

On: Ask HN: What books are you reading now?

[blb2]

I've been reading Mordew by Alex Pheby. It's an interesting story, but I don't think I'll continue to the sequel.

On: Ask HN: What books are you reading now?

[blb2]

I've had End of Eternity on my mind for a lot time but kept forgetting about it. Thank you for the reminder. I just put in an order for it.

On: WinDepends – A Rewrite of the Dependency Walker

[blb2]

This is the one I've been using and it's decent. I'm just worried that there hasn't been much activity in the repo and fear it's abandoned.

[HexDecOctBin → blb2]

I have been using this fork (https://github.com/lhak/Dependencies).

But I hate how this software comes with dozens of DLLs. I like to chuck these tools in sa single directory, and this is one that I have to put in a separate folder. DependencyWalker was better in this regard.

[samiv → HexDecOctBin]

why not just use the original dependency walker then? It's minimal and if I remember correctly it's all in a self contained executable.

[HexDecOctBin → samiv]

It doesn't work on modern Windows (due to SxS IIRC)

[Dwedit → HexDecOctBin]

It's API sets that broke it, not SxS.

You see these as the program trying to import nonexistent DLL files that start with the name "api-ms-win-". Dependency Walker can't handle those imports at all, it only deals with real DLL files.