Issues with librsvg-2-2.dll on Windows 11

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All of my packages dependent on librsvg-2-2.dll have suddenly stop working. I can confirm there is a file present in “bin”. I get a library could not load error. All packages were working until I did an update in package manager.
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How do I proceed in troubleshooting this?

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Sigh. Your operating system knows what library can’t be found, but it doesn’t tell you, it’s very frustrating. What you could try is to do

using DependencyWalker
using Luxor # this will fail, it's fine, it's what we want

Library("/path/to/librsvg...") # put here the actual path

Hopefully this will print what library can’t be found.

Side note, please don’t post screenshot, they’re hard to read and readers can’t copy-past code, see Please read: make it easier to help you.

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Thank you very much, and thank you for guide. I will keep this in mind for future reference.
DependencyWalker has identified libpangocairo-1.0-0.dll, libxml2-2.dll, and libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll as missing. I shall investigate this.

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I can’t seem to reproduce the issue on my Windows 11 computer, can you please share the output of:

using Pkg
versioninfo()
pkg"st --manifest"
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Sure. Here is the output.

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.11.5
Commit 760b2e5b73 (2025-04-14 06:53 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: 24 × 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12950HX
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LLVM: libLLVM-16.0.6 (ORCJIT, alderlake)
Threads: 1 default, 0 interactive, 1 GC (on 24 virtual cores)

(@v1.11) pkg> st
Status `C:\Users\nick.rode\.julia\environments\v1.11\Project.toml`
  [7db386b5] DependencyWalker v0.1.2
  [e9467ef8] GLMakie v0.13.1
  [7073ff75] IJulia v1.29.0
  [916415d5] Images v0.26.2
  [ae8d54c2] Luxor v4.3.0
  [e1fe445b] NativeFileDialog v0.2.1
  [91a5bcdd] Plots v1.40.14
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I am receiving the following message after adding the missing .dll files.

julia.exe - Entry Point Not Found
The procedure entry point DIIMain could not be located in the
dynamic link library
C:\Users\nick.rode\.julia\artifacts\5c9c5be2b9f7c41cbc4ed9ec3925b2c

However, I can confirm that the file is there. Perhaps there is something more deeply wrong with my system.
As I said, everything was working yesterday.

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The main change yesterday was the update of Glib from 2.84.0 to 2.84.3

If you run:

pkg> add Glib_jll@2.84.0

That might be a temporary fix.

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I am having the same problem with librsvg-2-.2.dll

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Comparing the list of dependencies in Security - Development guide for librsvg documentation with what is in Yggdrasil/L/Librsvg/build_tarballs.jl at dde65afd431c7fd42cccc7cc2038cca29b394845 · JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil · GitHub

It looks like there are missing dependencies on libxml2, cairo, freetype2, harfbuzz, and fontconfig

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While it’s better to explicitly list all required dependencies instead of relying on indirect dependencies, all those libraries should already be brought by other deps: JuliaHub

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Okay, I think the only package missing is XML2_jll@2.13, which isn’t brought in by the new version of Glib, I guess JuliaHub hasn’t updated yet.

Also, I can reproduce this issue on my computer if I launch julia using PowerShell. If I use Git Bash I don’t get the error.

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Ah, that’d explain the issue then. And yes, explicitly listing the required deps is always a good idea.

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Thank you so much everyone.
Setting and pinning the version of Glib_jll to 2.84.0 has everything up and working again.
Also, DependencyWalker is a helpful tool.

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The new version of Librsvg_jll (v2.54.7) should work now.

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