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.
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.
Clone and build it yourself or download a statically precompiled release.
- Option 1:
After building copy the x64 dll tosystem32and the x86 dll toSysWOW64. - Option 2:
Copy to the install directory wheremdmerge.exeresides.
By default it isC:\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.
Windows SDK 10.0.14393.0 install fails on Windows 7
Failed to Install Win 10 SDK onto a Win 7 machine