msys2/mingw's gdb.exe failed to start under Windows 7 for missing api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll and the solution

[asmwarrior]

Hi, some of my PC are still using Windows 7 64bit, I know msys2 is dropping Windows 7 support, we have some discussion in our issues.

When I run the pacman -Syu, I found that the gcc and g++ compiler still works nicely under Windows 7, but I can't start gdb.exe, it said I don't have api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll. I just searched on the internet, and found that maybe gdb need python, and recent python need this modern dll. But Windows 7 don't have such dll.

But this issue can be solved, I just found a github site: nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK: Implementation of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll for Windows 7 based on Wine code

This site supplies such dll, and I just download the dll and put it to the msys2/mingw64/bin folder, and now I can start gdb.exe to debug the program now. That's great.

I'd like to share this, hope it can help others.