Procedure entry point __printf__ could not be located in the dynamic link library libintl-8.dll

Question

When compiling Objective-C with GNUstep/MinGW I get the following error:

The procedure entry point __printf__ could not be located in the dynamic link library libintl-8.dll.

Windows 7/64-bit. File version on libintl-8.dll is 0.18.1.

Is the compiler using the right file?

Edit: here is the Exports table of the file at c:\MinGW\bin\libintl-8.dll

[Ordinal/Name Pointer] Table
        [   0] __printf__
        [   1] _get_output_format
        [   2] _nl_expand_alias
        [   3] _nl_explode_name
        [   4] _nl_find_domain
        [   5] _nl_find_msg
        [   6] _nl_language_preferences_default
        [   7] _nl_load_domain
         ...   ...

Answer 1

On my system, I fixed this by reordering my system PATH envvar so that c:\MinGW\bin would show up before %GTK_BASEPATH%\bin. That way, the correct libintl-8.dll that as.exe wanted would be found, even when GCC launches it from c:\MinGW\bin\mingw32\bin instead of c:\MinGW\bin. Otherwise, it would try to link against the one shipped with some GTK+ SDK which did not have all of the required symbols, I assume. Also, in my case, the dialog box complained that as.exe was missing the symbol when really the libintl-8.dll that the dynamic linker decided to try to use was at fault.

Too bad there aren’t more packages installable via mingw-get that actually share shared objects instead of each SDK shipping its own installer along with its own incompatible variants of the DLLs…