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Subject: RE: Bad EXE format (error 193)
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:48:24 +0100
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On 04 October 2007 15:26, Lynn Winebarger wrote:


>>> you see an error message along those lines, yes?  Hm.  Does it still
>>> happen if you compile the most basic sort of "hello world" program?
>> 
>> 
>>   It might also be informative to run "cygcheck <path-to-exe>" on your
>> compiled executable; that'll display the dependent DLLs for you.  A bit of
>> googling suggests that 193 can be caused by a corrupt/bogus executable, but
>> equally by a good executable thatt depends on a DLL which is faulty.
>> 
> 
> Thanks, Dave.  I did compile a hello-world.c program, and it ran, but
> I had also compiled PLT scheme v360 before (needed to bootstrap
> Larceny) and had run it without problem as well (I had thought this
> might be a permission issue, because what bash actually reports is
> "Access denied" - the underlying error took further investigation)

  Actually, I was trying to ask if you'd compiled a basic "helloworld" with
your new larceny compiler, or indeed if this example of yours is already a
very simple test program; i.e. is it only complex larceny executables that
don't work, or even the very simplest ones.

> $ cygcheck ./larcenybin.exe
> .\larcenybin.exe
>   C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
>     C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll

  Unfortunately that all looks completely correct, no clues there.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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