[Users] error while trying to load vCalendar plugin on Windows

[Jonathan Boeing]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 12:54:20 +0200
Cristian Secară <liste at secarica.ro> wrote:

> I have just installed version 3.17.8 64bit, clean, on a fresh
> installed system (Win10 64bit), then I just copied all the previously
> saved data file back to the default place.
> 
> The e-mail works as expected, but the calendar on top of the tree
> panel has gone. By trying to load the vcalendar plugin (which
> previously was already there from the config perspective), it gives
> === Error The following error occurred while loading vcalendar.dll:
> 'C:\Program Files\Claws Mail\lib\claws-mail\plugins\vcalendar.dll':
> The specified module could not be found. ===
> which does not makes sense, as the file exists physically.
> 
> I tried also to replace this file with the one from Claws Mail
> 3.17.4, but there was no difference.
> 
> ??
> 
> Cristi
> 

You should just need to install the Microsoft Visual C++
2010 x64 redistributable from
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26999

It's been fixed in git and will be in the next release.

Regards,

Jonathan