"Procedure Entry Point CloseHandle could not be, located" error with program compiled using MinGW

Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 15:54:11 -0500
> From: Ben Clapp <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Mingw-users] "Procedure Entry Point CloseHandle could not be
> 	located" error with program compiled using MinGW
>
> Hi all, I have a 3D program using SDL2 and Vulkan that I've developed on
> Linux, but also cross-compile for Windows.
> I have cross-compiled the application and run the application on Windows
> in the past without issue.
>
> Recently, however, I get the following error when running the
> application on Windows:
> "The procedure entry point CloseHandle could not be located in the
> dynamic link library [name_of_program].exe"
> It's not clear to me what changed to cause this error to occur.
> Testing older versions of the software that were working at the time
> result in the same error-
> Debian Linux recently updated their MinGW packaging in their testing
> branch (around late March 2020), so this could be related to the issue
> (I'm developing on a Debian Linux system that is tracking the testing
> branch).
>
> libgcc and libstdc++ are statically linked to the application;
> dynamically linking them only changes the error about the entry point
> from CloseHandle to _Unwind_Resume or _ZNSt6chrono3_V212system_clock3nowEv.
>
> As my code does not call CloseHandle() directly, I am confused as to
> what the issue is or what I need to do to resolve the issue.
> It seems as if when the application is being linked by the linker, it is
> somehow referring to CloseHandle() as a func that should be defined
> within the .exe program binary, as opposed to trying to look for
> CloseHandle() inside kernel32.dll.
>
> Can someone give some insight as to what exactly is going on here, and
> what steps can be taken to troubleshoot and resolve the issue?
Have you checked to dates on the libgcc and libstdc++ files to see if 
they have been updated recently?

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