Re: couldn't load xul.dll

On 01/22/18 02:36 PM, Barbara wrote:
 > On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 01:28:00 UTC, Dave Yeo <[email protected]> wrote:
 >
 >> On 01/21/18 04:48 PM, [email protected] wrote:
 >>> Using Pmdll.exe reports firefox.exe as startable, 
plugin-containers.exe as can not find
 >>> xul.dll in libpath.
 >> Try running PMDLL on xul.dll. And as Steve mentioned, sometimes it is a
 >> newer version of a DLL needed, eg the SM I built yesterday needs a libc
 >> that hasn't been released.
 >> Also check popuplog.os2.
 >> Dave
 > I'm having the same problem trying to install FF 45.9.0-2
 >
 > "Couldn't load xul.dll (os2 error2, faulty module=ICUIN"

You need libicu, you probably have the older icu package installed. They 
can both be installed without conflicts.

 >
 > I installed Arca Noae Package Manager, updated and filled up my boot 
drive with
 > everything under the sun that it found needing newer versions.  That 
didn't help
 > much.
 >
 > Last Firefix I've been able to run is 31.  My eCS version is 2.2b2.
 >
 > I ran pmdll on xul.dll but don't know how to interpret.  It found two red
 > things, are these bad?  They are
 > MOZALLOC.DLL AND MOZSQLT3.DLL.

This just shows they're not on the LIBPATH, which is correct as Firefox 
looks in its program directory for these.
Hopefully the RPM version of Firefox will be released for wider 
availability, currently it is just available for Arcaos beta testers.
Dave