Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe@cygwin.com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help@cygwin.com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 17:50:18 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: question for perl maintainer
Message-ID: <20050707215018.GB22301@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
References: <7231C15EAC2F164CA6DC326D97493C8BA1C3F1@exchange35.fed.cclrc.ac.uk> <6.2.1.2.0.20050707140715.03ce4ac0@pop.prospeed.net> <20050707182759.GA15923@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <42CD945A.4070607@familiehaase.de> <42CD9885.1000605@familiehaase.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <42CD9885.1000605@familiehaase.de>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:03:01PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>
>>>Wouldn't this problem be ameliorated slightly if the perl DLLs all
>>>loaded in unique addresses to begin with?  Isn't the problem that all
>>>perl DLLs (and probably others) are loading in address 0x10000000?
>>>
>>>Gerrit, would you be willing to change this so that the DLLs load in
>>>non-default locations?  This would probably help everyone right out
>>>of the box?
>>
>>Sounds good.  WHat is the magic flag I need to add to the link commands?
>
>Would --enable-auto-image-base do it or do I need to specify an address
>with --image-base <address>?  If the second, which address may I use?

--enable-auto-image-base would probably be sufficient -- at least as a
first stab at fixing this problem.  Just make sure that none of the dlls
load into cygwin's load address.

cgf

--
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/