rust-windowing / rust-windowing/winit
Crash when starting winit window over remote desktop on Windows
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Description
When a winit window is spawned over a remote desktop connection on Windows, it will fail with the Error LoadLibrary failed with error 87: The parameter is incorrect.
If the window has been started locally, it does not crash when accessed over remote desktop.
This has been reported to Alacritty in https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/1976.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the failure when spawning a winit window over a Windows Remote Desktop connection, comparing it with a window started locally and then accessed remotely. Use the reported LoadLibrary error and the linked Alacritty report as investigation leads; done means the remote-start case no longer crashes while local behavior remains working.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100