From: kh AT wg DOT icl DOT co DOT uk (Kevin Hughes) Subject: Broken .exe files? 8 Dec 1997 06:20:57 -0800 Message-ID: <01BD03D9.AF3D5220.cygnus.gnu-win32@rodney.wg.icl.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Gnuwin95 (E-mail)" Some time ago I sent a request to the group regarding broken .exe files being produced by the gnu compiler. I am still stuck and would appreciate help in tracking the problem down. The system I have produces a large .exe file - around 6 meg. The major part of this is a library which it links with As a standard libxxx.a file. When I try to run it I get an error indicating something wrong with the executable. It is not specific - error 0. The file is not a valid executable. If I strip the executable it shrinks and becomes perfectly well behaved. I am really confused. Is there any way of checking the executable? Has anyone else experienced this? Would building a dll for the library and dynamically loading it help? All suggestions would be much appreciated. Kevin Kevin - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".