Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3BA7ADE6.3080109@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:26:14 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010713 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Paulus CC: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Subject: Re: What's Diff between shared lib (.so) and .dll??? References: <200109181953.f8IJrCkp005781@mail.ee.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark Paulus wrote: > I've been trying to work out this example of how to > make makefiles and shared library modules that are at least slightly > portable between linux and cygwin. But, I'm having some > difficulty. > they are different. To learn how to build DLLs using cygwin tools, see http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/V1.1/dll-stuff/ Note that there seems to be a cygwin-related problem that is tickled by the C example, but the C++ and Fortran examples work fine. The cygwin bug is in 1.3.3-2 and is heap related; the person who reported it to me is researching it (I seem to remember something about heap errors in the archives)...more info to come... src/dllhelpers-0.2.7/ $ ./usedll.exe m.AllocationBase 0x0, m.BaseAddress 0x614E0000, m.RegionSize 0x20000, m.State 0x10000 D:\cygwin\usr\local\src\dllhelpers-0.2.7\c\usedll.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap (0x614E0000 <0x460000>) in child, Win32 error 487 --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/