Application fails to start due to libglib

[Travis Stewart]

I just installed Midori 0.5.6 on a Window XP SP3 32-bit system. On startup I get the error:

"This application has failed to start because libglib-2.0-0.dll was not found".

In addition, once I click okay and move past this error I get another RUNDLL error:

"Error loading C:\PROGRA~1\Midori\bin\LIBGIO~1.DLL, The specified module could not be found"

The application still starts and I can use the browser , but it is certainly rather annoying.

The about:version info is listed below:

alias a=b; echo Copy carefully #bout:version

Version numbers in brackets show the version used at runtime.

Command line C:\Program Files\Midori\bin\midori.exe
Midori 0.5.6 ((null))
GTK+ 3.6.4 (3.6.4) Glib 2.34.3 (2.34.3)
WebKitGTK+ 1.10.2 (1.10.2) libSoup 2.40.3
cairo 1.12.10 (1.12.10) libnotify No
gcr No granite No
Platform Windows NT 5.1
Identification Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.133 Safari/537.6 Midori/0.5
Video Formats H264 [x] Ogg Theora [x] WebM [x]

[Paweł Forysiuk (tuxator)]

Installer sometimes embedds the wrong "start here" path when installing for Midori shortcuts, it should work fine if you change it to "C:\Program Files\Midori\bin". Not sure yet what is the cause, looks like maybe some accidentally reused variable in the installer.

[Travis Stewart (travisstewart42)]

When I looked at the "start in" path it was set as "C:\Program Files\Midori" so I modified this to "C:\Program Files\Midori\bin" and tried restarting the browser. While the original error went away, this has resulted in another error:

"The procedure entry point iconv could not be located in in the dynamic link library ICONV.DLL"

followed by the second error I was getting:

"Error loading C:\PROGRA~1\Midori\bin\LIBGIO~1.DLL, The specified module could not be found"

[mhtrinh (mhtrinh)]

+1
I have the same problem (same version : midori 0.5.6, winXP SP3 32bit).
When run midori directly from C:\Program Files\Midori\bin, it crash (unhandle exception and ask for my debugger, MS Visual studio ...).
The same happen when I correct the link in "start here" to "C:\Program Files\Midori\bin" and run from the link.

[S.A.S (saslist)]

Hi Folks,
To: Christian Dywan -
Be advised the version 0.5.7 still has the exact same issues!

As of earlier this afternoon, I had downloaded and installed Midori from the www.midori-browser.org site.
I also experienced the exact issues as described by the original poster, Travis Stewart. I saw both the error messages just as Travis described.

I do think that I have developed a tempoary work around for the issues. I think item 2 below will provide you a pointer to what still needs to be fixed in the code.

1) I did fix the path as suggested to include the "\bin" in the Start Here box so that the path now reads as: "C:\Program Files\Midori\bin". However, please be advised that in addition to fixing the Midori link in the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop folder, I verified and made the same correction to the following:
  - Link in the C:\Program Files\Midori folder:
      - the "Midori" link.
  - Links in the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Midori folder:
      - the "Midori" and "Website" links.

2) Further, I also did the following to address the second error message that Travis discribed above. In the C:\Program Files\Midori\bin folder, I made a short cut of the "libgio-2.0-0.dll" BUT RENAMED this new short cut to "libgio-1.0-0.dll" to have it point to the newer "...2.0-0.dll" version of that library file. This seems to take care of whatever code is still looking for the previous "...1.0-0.dll" file while re-directing it towards the current "...2.0-0.dll" file. This works to satisfy and eliminate that second error message that Travis described.

Now I do NOT get any error messages when I launch the browser. I have been running the browser for a few hours now, surfing with multi-tabs, changing Preferences, using Book Marks, Starting & Stopping the browser to exit and re-launch numerous times...NO crashes while using...NO error messages at launch.

I'm on an older computer with:
 - Windows XP, SP3
 - Single processor @ 1.90 GHz
 - 1.00 GB RAM

The Midori browser info is provided here:

The about:version is shown here.
alias a=b; echo Copy carefully #bout:version

Version numbers in brackets show the version used at runtime.

Command line C:\Program Files\Midori\bin\midori.exe
Midori 0.5.7 ((null))
GTK+ 3.6.4 (3.6.4) Glib 2.34.3 (2.34.3)
WebKitGTK+ 1.10.2 (1.10.2) libSoup 2.40.3
cairo 1.12.10 (1.12.10) libnotify No
gcr No granite No
Platform Windows NT 5.1
Identification Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/537.6+ Midori/0.5
Video Formats H264 [x] Ogg Theora [x] WebM [x]

I post this in hopes that it will be helpful to you for a future code fix and helpful to others as a temporary work around until that fix is published.

Thanks so much for a great lightweight browser that sails along quick and smooth on my old dog 'puter.
S.A.S.

[Amy Dodd (planktonette)]

I can confirm having just installed midori on a fresh win xp install that this bug is still present in v0.5.9.

alias a=b; echo Copy carefully #bout:version

Version numbers in brackets show the version used at runtime.

Command line C:\Program Files\Midori\bin\midori.exe
Midori 0.5.9 ((null)) Midori.exe
GTK+ 3.10.4 (3.10.4) Glib 2.40.0 (2.40.0)
WebKitGTK+ 2.2.6 (2.2.6) libSoup 2.44.2
cairo 1.12.16 (1.12.16) libnotify No
gcr No granite No
Platform Windows NT 5.1
Identification Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/538.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.133 Safari/538.1 Midori/0.5
Video Formats H264 [x] Ogg Theora [x] WebM [x]

[Giovanni Preda (preda-giovanni)]

Bug still present in v0.5.11

[aol support (aolsupport123)]

Hi Trevis,
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[Alexander Day (adayhotsauce)]

still affects me on 0.5.11