Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/08/18/16:41:22
GDN_Cygwin wrote:
>
> There seems to be a problem running HLDS (half-life dedicated server) for
> windows and Cygwin and possible other similar apps.
>
> The setup:
>
> 1) Full install of HLDS, lets call it hlds1
> 2) Second complete install of HLDS in separate directory, call hlds2
>
> I have no problem executing the hlds1 or hlds2 by themselves. But when I
> try to run both at the same time the 2nd one does not run at all.
Sorry, I do not know what HLDS is or what it does, apart from it being of the
server variety of applications. Is HLDS a free software project, an open source
project, a commercial thing?
> If I kill hlds1 and run hlds2 it starts right up.
>
> If I run either hlds1 or hlds2 and try to even execute the other one from
> file explorer I get an error "Unable to load engine, image is corrupt."
>
> Although if I run hlds1 and hlds2 from file explorer they both run fine.
This doesn't really sound like a Cygwin issue. Is HLDS a Cygwin app or Mingw
app [read: native windows app] ?
> I have seen on the net claims that cygwin has:
>
> "NOTE: There are issues with the cygwin.dll and separating simultaneous
> user space. Use with caution!"
There *are* issues when running multiple versions of the Cygwin dll
(cygwin1.dll), but not when running two Cygwin programs on a single
installation.
> They suggest using SSH.COM's SSH solution for this issue.
Who does? And if this entity suggests using ssh.com's solution for this "problem"
then perhaps you should goto ssh.com for help.
> Has anyone else run into this?
>
> I tried to even run firedaemon from cygwin but cannot do it without admin
> so thats out. I also tried to run psexec but it does not work under
> cygwin either apprently. This approach was to try and get cygwin to start
> hlds as services by a non Admin user to get around the problem.
>
> The main thing I am trying to do is have a normal (non Admin) user run
> hlds.exe and have multiple copies of it run on the same machine.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I'm sorry but, although you have provided a lot of information, it's not really
useful. You seem to have a problem with a *Windows* program, and I'm not too sure
how Cygwin fits into this at all.
Please take a gander at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, if you think this
really is a Cygwin issue.
-- Elfyn
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