Misc. bug: Windows prebuilt binaries not working since b4191

[waltersamson]

Name and Version

llama-b4191-bin-win* and onwards

Operating systems

Windows 10

Problem description & steps to reproduce

Relevant discussion: #10926

• Download prebuilt windows binaries since b4191, such as llama-b4191-bin-win-avx2-x64.zip
• Extract and run llama-server.exe or llama-cli.exe

Actual behavior:
No output in terminal, the program just returns.
No error message of any kind, no terminal output, just terminates.

Expected behavior:
It should print out messages such as "build: 4179 (25669aa) with MSVC 19.29.30157.0 for x64"

First Bad Commit

First bad build is b4191:

├─llama-b3598-bin-win-avx2-x64-GOOD
├─llama-b3982-bin-win-avx2-x64-GOOD
├─llama-b4056-bin-win-avx2-x64-GOOD
├─llama-b4139-bin-win-avx2-x64-GOOD
├─llama-b4171-bin-win-avx2-x64-GOOD
├─llama-b4177-bin-win-avx2-x64-GOOD
├─llama-b4178-bin-win-avx2-x64-GOOD
├─llama-b4179-bin-win-avx2-x64-GOOD
├─llama-b4191-bin-win-avx2-x64-BAD
├─llama-b4200-bin-win-avx2-x64-BAD
├─llama-b4226-bin-win-avx2-x64-BAD
└─llama-b4375-bin-win-avx2-x64-BAD

Relevant log output

No log output available, the program just quits:

C:\Users\ws\Desktop\test_llamacpp_bin\llama-b4191-bin-win-avx2-x64-BAD>llama-cli.exe

C:\Users\ws\Desktop\test_llamacpp_bin\llama-b4191-bin-win-avx2-x64-BAD>llama-server.exe

C:\Users\ws\Desktop\test_llamacpp_bin\llama-b4191-bin-win-avx2-x64-BAD>

[slaren]

Duplicate of #10929

[Martin-HZK]

I resolve the issue by upgrading the MSVC version. I strongly recommend that you upgrade the MSVC version from Microsoft official website. @waltersamson