382844 - Firefox nightly reports "GetLongPathNameW could not be located" on startup

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 330208

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tom Metro]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070222 SeaMonkey/1.1.1
Build Identifier: firefox-3.0a5pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe

When trying to start the Firefox nightly ("Minefield", firefox-3.0a5pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe) just downloaded, on a Windows NT sp6a system, on startup it shows a dialog:

"The procedure entry point GetLongPathNameW could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll"

Probably an API not supported by NT. I haven't tried any 3.0 era nightlies before, so I don't know when this problem was introduced.

I reported a similar problem (the entry point was GetLongPathNameA) regarding a Thunderbird nightly here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2867268#2867268


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install nightly.
2. Start application.

Actual Results:  
Error dialog

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Firefox trunk no longer supports Windows NT. The minimum run requirements are Windows 2000 and above.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Not a dupe of that, more usefully a dupe of "die with an 'unsupported' message."