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Subject:	RE: Bad EXE format (error 193)
Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:56:10 +0100
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On 04 October 2007 14:21, Lynn Winebarger wrote:

>    I am trying to get the Larceny Scheme compiler
> (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/will/Larceny/) to compile (and work)
> under the most recent stable Cygwin release.  While I have managed to
> get it to produce a file that very closely resembles a PE file, it
> apparently is not close enough to satisfy Windows XP Home Edition SP
> 2.
>    Unfortunately, objdump and other file analyzers have no problem
> with the file, while none of the debuggers I tried had anything
> helpful to say about the problem.  I have compiled other things under
> Cygwin (PLT Scheme, for example) that not only produced an executable
> image but produced one Windows would actually run.  I have tried doing
> a diff against the headers between this and the Larceny image and
> cannot see a glaring error (but I am not an expert in either Windows
> executables or Larceny's source code).
>     I cannot find anything helpful on this error in the mailing list
> archives.  Is there a tool that would identify the problem, or maybe a
> kind expert with some guidance on resolving this issue?

  We might be able to make guesses at what was wrong with the compiled program
if you told us *in what way* it is "not close enough to satisfy Windows XP".



    cheers,
      DaveK
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