Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <42A62DAE.F4153556@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:28:46 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with using stripped cygwin1.dll built from CVS References: <42A6298E.303@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com David Rothenberger wrote: > I'm having a problem when I try to use the stripped cygwin1.dll built > from CVS. I'm seeing this problem both with the current binutils release > and with the previous one. > > When I attempt to start bash, I get the following error message from > Windows in a pop-up window: > > "The application or DLL c:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll is not a valid Windows > image. Please check this against your installation diskette." Part of the new cygheap changes that cgf recently checked in, were a number of changes/tweaks to the linker script. It's possible that your checkout happened in the middle of those changes, or you didn't get them all. Try a recent checkout. (If you are already using an up to date tree, then ignore this...) Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/