So I was making my stuff in Defold (installed on a USB) on my gaming PC and, out of the blue, I was faced with the error “dmegine.exe has stopped working” when I went to build my project! I know it’s not a problem with the project because building and launching the exact same project on my Windows tablet works just fine, and trying to build a previously working project on my PC gives me the same problem!
I’ve searched far and wide for someone having the same problem on these forums, and I found one thread which suggested the OP downloads a program called Dependency Walker. I did that, and ran the program, and there’s a huge list of missing DLLs in the bottom. Most of them (i.e. the ones starting with API-MS or EXT-MS) are false positives, as explained by a StackOverflow thread, but I found a couple that seem to be legitimate, such as EFSCORE.dll and EMCLIENT.dll
I’ve already tried reinstalling Defold, restarting my computer, and allowing all the Defold-related programs on the firewall. None of these remedied my issue. What’s worse, the editor console shows absolutely nothing when this happens!
It’s also worth noting that building to HTML works fine on the PC that has this issue.