v0.12.0 is not working on Windows 7

[jfcherng]

It just prompts an error box:

The procedure entry point CreateFile2 could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll

v0.11.0 works well btw.

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The following is what I can find.

Actually the CreateFile2 function is started to be used from Windows 8. So you can't find an entry point of this method in Win7 Kernal32.dll. Have you tried to use CreateFile which could be used in Win7 instead of it?

From https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/officeocs/en-US/47470316-5868-4e6e-a62f-6b880c46d824/creating-exe-vcxproj-in-win-7-the-procedure-entry-point-ltfunctiongt-could-not-be-located-in?forum=vcgeneral#76d55530-70a6-41ab-9687-5f4129e0c79c

[sharkdp]

Thank you for reporting this.

This could be related to an update in ansi_term which introduced these lines:
https://github.com/ogham/rust-ansi-term/blob/6755eaa7a1977caabf3013db3a3e08e11acface9/src/windows.rs#L28-L34

Ideally, this should be reported upstream in the ansi_term repo.

As a short-term measure, I think we could downgrade to an older version of ansi_term.

[jfcherng]

They seem to have this issue already resolved in ogham/rust-ansi-term#54.

[sharkdp]

Thank you for the link.

Well, the PR is not yet merged and there is no new version we could depend on. Let's re-open this ticket until we have a fix in bat (either by downgrading or by upgrading to a future version).

[rivy]

The PR (#52) that should fix the issue has been merged into master for ansi-term.

Upgrading to ansi-term v0.12.1 should repair the issue for bat. Let me know if there's still a problem and I'll look at it again.

[sharkdp]

@rivy Thank you!

New release is out: bat v0.12.1

@jfcherng: it would be great if you could confirm that this fixes the issue

[jfcherng]

@sharkdp Yes, v0.12.1 works. Thanks you guys.