Win64 DLL location

[steveshaddick]

Please note that on Windows 7 64bit the dependent DLLs need to be placed in C:\Windows\SysWOW64 (not C:\Windows\System32).

[ahupp]

Do you have a 64-bit version of libmagic?

[ahupp]

Lots of people have been looking for that.

[skizzy]

please help, all the DLL's I download was giving me 'invalid error' which one of those files should I download? Because , I think most might be outdated, since they were coded in 2007. Kindly share the exact link of the DLL'S

[iljau]

There's a project named MSYS2. It provides windows builds of common unix packages (and very recent versions of them).

But it's rather sneaky. One has to browse though Haskell wiki to find out that it exist: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Preparation/Windows/MSYS2

Package list:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MSYS2/i686/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MSYS2/x86_64/

msys-magic-1.dll can be found in the build of file package.

Using Dependency Walker to figure out other required dll's is left as an exercise for the reader. ;-)

[fake-name]

You can get the 64 bit DLL by just using the 64 bit Cygwin install quite easily.

[oba2cat3]

you can also use this build:
pidydx

[mattproetsch]

I'm using Win10 x64 with updates. I had an error using the DLLs linked by @oba2cat3. However I used @iljau's sources and got this working. Dependency Walker gave msys-2.0.dll and msys-z.dll as dependencies of file.exe for package version file-5.29-1.

Win10 x64 steps
Download from the x86_64 MSYS build repository:

• msys-file package.
• msys2-runtime package. Drop usr/bin/msys-2.0.dll inside the usr/bin folder of msys-file package.
• zlib package. Drop usr/bin/msys-z.dll inside the usr/bin folder of msys-file package.

To get import magic working correctly make sure that the three DLLs are somewhere on your PATH. I also had to add the string value 'msys-magic-1.dll' to the list stored in windows_dlls of magic.py so that the module init searched for the MSYS version. Alternatively you can just rename msys-magic-1.dll -> magic1.dll if you don't want to change the contents of package files.

EDIT
Scratch all that. Just follow these instructions.

[ahupp]

Merging into #293