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@Ext3h Ext3h commented Aug 5, 2025

Fix #11699 by replacing the call to ShellExecuteExW with the fragile CoInitializeEx setup by a plain CreateProcessW.

Not only should this avoid the bug itself, but also speed up the invocation of the dot.exe etc. significantly.

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I just did small test on my Windows (10) system with an older compiler and I didn't see any problems.

@doxygen doxygen merged commit 11240ae into doxygen:master Aug 6, 2025
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Portable::system gets stuck in spinlock on Windows with high CPU core counts
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