Unable to find DLL files on internet. Any suggestions

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I am not sure if the question depicts everything, but here is the story.

I needed a canvas for my node.js project thus I downloaded it following the instructions from node-canvas github. When, I compiled and run my program, I got this error

>module.js:355
>Module._extensions[extension](this, filename);
                           ^ Error: The specified procedure could not be found.
C:\node_modules\canvas\build\Release\canvas.node at Error (native) at Module.load (module.js:355:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12) at Module.require (module.js:365:17) at require (module.js:384:17) at Object. (C:\node_modules\canvas\lib\bindings.js:2:18) at Module._compile (module.js:460:26) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:478:10) at Module.load (module.js:355:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:310:12)

FYI, this is not an error from my code as I only get this when I include the canvas module in my script. I had already set the path variable, downloaded 64bit GTK, updated Visual C++ Redistribution Packages for Visual Studio 2013 and still was getting the above error. My quick search online made me use dependency walker which said following dll are missing

API-MS-WIN-CORE-KERNEL32-PRIVATE-L1-1-1.DLL

API-MS-WIN-CORE-PRIVATEPROFILE-L1-1-1.DLL

API-MS-WIN-SERVICE-PRIVATE-L1-1-1.DLL

API-MS-WIN-CORE-SHUTDOWN-L1-1-1.DLL

EXT-MS-WIN-NTUSER-UICONTEXT-EXT-L1-1-0.DLL

I was able to found the first 3 dlls but could not found last 2 anywhere. I am using win8.1 64bit,

Please any suggestion how can I get those file. If it is not possible to get them, then any suggestion on how can I use canvas in node.js

user3050590 user3050590 · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-26T19:16:16

How I solved the above problem?

1) The reason I was unable to include canvas module in my project file is due to the wrong installation. Following the instructions from this post, Cannot find module `mysql` node.js I put my project folder under node and installed the module there.

2) I don't think above dll files actually has to do with this problem. When I solved the problem, I ran the dependency walker again on the same file and again it was showing the same dll missing. Seems, it is something with Windows 8.1.

Unable to find DLL files on internet. Any suggestions

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