In the early 2000s there was this website called dll-files.com or something like that, and every time that error popped up (which happened a lot in the 90s and 2000s), you’d go to that website, download the missing file, and 99% of the time it would fix the problem. These days I’d advise against obtaining random DLL files from the internet but back then it was like magic.
Or you’d get lucky and some other program you installed happens to have the right dependencies. Just copy them to the application install dir or to C:\windows\win32\ and off you go.
Windows, can I run this 25 year old software I just installed?
In the early 2000s there was this website called dll-files.com or something like that, and every time that error popped up (which happened a lot in the 90s and 2000s), you’d go to that website, download the missing file, and 99% of the time it would fix the problem. These days I’d advise against obtaining random DLL files from the internet but back then it was like magic.
Or you’d get lucky and some other program you installed happens to have the right dependencies. Just copy them to the application install dir or to
C:\windows\win32\and off you go.On Windows people should only be downloading software from the Windows repo and using Winget to install it.
Wine: Just choose from a big list of overwrites.
