[tor-bugs] #9084 [Tor bundles/installation]: TBB 3.0a1 crashes on startup on WinXP (missing entry points for _vsnprintf_s in msvcrt.dll)

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#9084: TBB 3.0a1 crashes on startup on WinXP (missing entry points for
_vsnprintf_s in msvcrt.dll)
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 Reporter:  dope457                              |          Owner:  erinn           
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:  new             
 Priority:  major                                |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Tor bundles/installation             |        Version:  Tor: unspecified
 Keywords:  tbb-3.0, tbb-crash, MikePerry201306  |         Parent:                  
   Points:                                       |   Actualpoints:                  
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Changes (by gk):

  * status:  needs_information => new


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:8 mikeperry]:
 > Is this what we need: https://www.microsoft.com/en-
 us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=3387

 Well, sort of. I'd take https://www.microsoft.com/en-
 us/download/details.aspx?id=5555 as VC 2010 (and thus the respective
 runtime libs) is the minimum to compile Fx nowadays and get it going. But
 I don't know yet whether this idea works at all as I've read things like
 "MinGW does not use Visual C++ Redistributable" and "MinGW uses the
 Microsoft runtime libraries, distributed with the Windows operating
 system.".

 > Unless we can find a canonical version of that file, it seems we might
 be at an impasse?

 Hmm... I gonna ask the Microsoft support if there is something we could do
 here (maybe we get some hashes of the canonical version, dunno). Sounds
 like fun. :)

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