Missing Dll in dependency walker

Question

I am having a dll and which I am opening into the dependency walker with platform visual studio 2003 and OS is 2000. and my that dll find all dependency.

But when I am going to open that dll in to tha another system which is having OS- windows7 and visual studio 2010, I found missing dlls errors.

GDIPLUS.DLL,
GPSVC.DLL,
IESHIMS.DLL.

above listed 3 dll were missing. when I have downloded those dlls and put them into the same location where my dll is residing, I am finding below listed missing dlls list.

API-MS-WIN-CORE-COM-L1-1-1.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-DEBUG-L1-1-1.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-DELAYLOAD-L1-1-1.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-ERRORHANDLING-L1-1-1.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-FILE-L1-2-1.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-FILE-L2-1-1.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-HEAP-L1-2-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-HEAP-OBSOLETE-L1-1-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-JOB-L2-1-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-KERNEL32-LEGACY-L1-1-1.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-LIBRARYLOADER-L1-2-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-LOCALIZATION-L1-2-1.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-LOCALIZATION-OBSOLETE-L1-2-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-MEMORY-L1-1-2.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-PRIVATEPROFILE-L1-1-1.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-PROCESSENVIRONMENT-L1-2-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-PROCESSTHREADS-L1-1-2.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-REGISTRY-L1-1-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-REGISTRY-PRIVATE-L1-1-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-STRING-OBSOLETE-L1-1-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-SYNCH-L1-2-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-SYSINFO-L1-2-1.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-THREADPOOL-L1-2-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-THREADPOOL-LEGACY-L1-1-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-THREADPOOL-PRIVATE-L1-1-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-CORE-TIMEZONE-L1-1-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-DOWNLEVEL-ADVAPI32-L1-1-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-DOWNLEVEL-OLE32-L1-1-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-DOWNLEVEL-SHLWAPI-L1-1-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-EVENTING-PROVIDER-L1-1-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-SECURITY-ACTIVEDIRECTORYCLIENT-L1-1-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-SECURITY-BASE-L1-2-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-SECURITY-GROUPPOLICY-L1-1-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-SECURITY-LSALOOKUP-L1-1-1.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-SECURITY-LSALOOKUP-L2-1-1.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-SECURITY-PROVIDER-L1-1-0.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-SERVICE-CORE-L1-1-1.DLL,
API-MS-WIN-SERVICE-WINSVC-L1-2-0.DLL,
SYSNTFY.DLL.

It is may be because of configuration issue, please help me out to resolve this issue.

Answer 1

These reported errors for GDIPLUS.DLL, GPSVC.DLL and IESHIMS.DLL are false positives. The static analysis that Dependency Walker does will sometimes report errors like this. But when you attempt to load the DLL you will find, I believe, that it loads successfully.

You do not need to download these three DLLs. You should absolutely reverse that action. Remove those files from the directory where your DLL resides.

Answer 2

All the API-MS-WIN-XXX 'missing' dll's are really API-sets (sometimes referred to as 'virtual DLLs'). Dependency walker just wasn't updated since before their inception. Here are some details.