Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/04/07/11:43:43
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Brian Ford wrote:
>
> > > The problem with all this is that the winpcap DLLs are compiled with
> > > Mingw and depend on msvcrt, so if you want to use them with Cygwin apps
> > > you have to recompile them to use cygwin1.dll. If you don't do this,
> > > the libpcap application (Net::Pcap in this case) will compile but fail
> > > to run correctly.
> >
> > Just curious what this really means. I use the winpcap DLLs daily in a
> > Cygwin appliction (custom, not Perl) without incident. Am I just lucky?
>
> I'm not entirely sure either. :-) I too have "fudged it" and gotten
> some apps to work, but with strage behavior sometimes. Run cygcheck on
> the app and see if it's loading both cygwin1.dll and msvcr*.dll, if so
> then it's luck. I think it mostly tends to work because the winpcap
> stuff doesn't call the C runtime for much.
Sorry. I forgot that I'm actually using LoadLibrary here. But,
$ cygcheck ./wpcap.dll
.\wpcap.dll
.\KERNEL32.dll
.\ntdll.dll
.\WSOCK32.dll
.\WS2_32.dll
.\msvcrt.dll
.\WS2HELP.dll
.\ADVAPI32.dll
.\RPCRT4.dll
.\pthreadVC.dll
.\packet.dll
.\USER32.dll
.\GDI32.dll
So the dependency comes from winsock? It doesn't sound like that is
avoidable? That pthreadVC.dll is a bit scary too.
Also, the app in question uses a tiny portion of the ddraw.dll, which also
depends on msvcrt.dll. I can't believe *this* is really not supported.
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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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