Shibboleth SP Install Failing on Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter

[Cantor, Scott]

On 1/20/16, 9:46 AM, "users on behalf of voidinutah" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of marc at oneleaf.com> wrote:



>I've found the issue, but don't understand why Shibboleth is doing this.
>
>The problem is that there was an older version of the xerces-c_3_1.dll file
>in the Windows System32 directory.

From what? I've never run into that anywhere. OpenSSL and curl are somewhat common, but not that.

> And when Shibboleth service is started,
>it runs through several different directories looking for this file.

The system32 directory is always going to be in the search path, and I long since stopped caring how Windows finds things since they change their mind in every version. In the old days the only real way to prevent that was if the executable was in the same directory as the DLL and that isn't going to happen.

If Xerces ends up creating conflicts I'll end up renaming it at some point. I have to do another build of it anyway, so probably as good a time as any. There's not much left I haven't renamed in some way.

-- Scott