Dependency Walker: missing dlls

Dependencies program helped me find a missing DLL in no time. It is open source and available here: https://github.com/lucasg/Dependencies


These are API-sets - essentially, an extra level of call indirection introduced gradually since windows 7. Dependency walker development seemingly halted long before that, and it can't handle API sets properly.

So these are all false alarms and nothing to worry about. You're not missing anything.

Also see On API-MS-WIN-XXXXX.DLL, and Other Dependency Walker Glitches.


Edit: Only in Oct 2017 did someone finally try to fill this gap. Meet Dependencies by lucasg. I've only briefly fiddled with it until now, but it handles API sets well and is at least very worthy of attention.


I also ignore:

  • EFSCORE.DLL
  • WPAXHOLDER.DLL

In addition to what @Ofek Shilon said, I usually ignore following dlls that dependency_walker identified as missing when I try to find missing dlls for my program. You will see that your program runs fine when dependency_walker says these dlls are missing.

  • API-MS-WIN-*.dll
  • EXT-MS-WIN-*.dll
  • IESHIMS.dll
  • EMCLIENT.dll
  • DEVICELOCKHELPERS.dll

You can search for dlls other than the ones above to resolve your problem.