On Sat, 20 Dec 2025, Pali Rohár wrote:
Per MS documentation [1] the SetThreadDescription function should be called
from the kernel32.dll library and not from the kernelbase.dll library.
[1] -
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processthreadsapi/nf-processthreadsapi-setthreaddescription
---
mingw-w64-libraries/winpthreads/src/misc.c | 10 +++-------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
There may still be reasons for wanting to load this from kernelbase.dll -
see
https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/1f4fed5cc3be0737305e342f753c42716d6bf432
// Although SetThreadDescription lives in kernel32.dll, on Windows Server
2016,
// Windows 10 LTSB 2016 and Windows 10 version 1607, it was only available
in
// kernelbase.dll. So, load it from there for maximum coverage.
// Martin
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