api-ms-win-core-wow64-l1-1-1.dll on Windows 10

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I'm trying to revive some old software: it was developed on Windows XP, and I'm trying to get it working on Windows 10.

However, this software is dependent on api-ms-win-core-wow64-l1-1-1.dll, which isn't co-operating: Dependencies states that api-ms-win-core-wow64-l1-1-1.dll is missing imports, while Visual Studio's dumpbin states that it has no dependencies.

I'm aware that Microsoft has migrated its functionality and that nobody should link to the implementations directly, but is there any way to get api-ms-win-core-wow64-l1-1-1.dll functionality for this old software on Windows 10? Alternatively, is there an accessible way to rewrite old .dlls to link to Microsoft's Win32 APIs?

(For those who need the file: I got api-ms-win-core-wow64-l1-1-1.dll by running $ locate api-ms-win-core-wow64-l1-1-1.dll on a linux machine with wine installed on it.)

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I'm not sure whether this directly addresses your issue. I'm supporting a Java app which uses JNI with some native Windows libraries. I used Dependencies to check what was missing and it turned out to be api-ms-win-core-wow64-l1-1-1.dll (through WS2_32.dll).

The solution for me was to install the latest VC redistributable from MS.

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Getting libraries from Wine is probably not a solution, in case you seek to use them outside the linux environment. (They are wrappers and obviously not using native Windows assemblies)

You can get some success by using extracting them from the ReactOS live CD. However, you should be aware that many of these are umbrella libraries, as explained here:

An umbrella library is a single static-link library that exports a subset of Win32 APIs. For example, an umbrella library named OneCore.lib provides the exports for the subset of Win32 APIs that are common to all Windows 10 devices.

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