Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <20001113143929.28133.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 06:39:29 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: make: could not load advapi32.dll To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 10:48:10PM +0100, Emanuele Aliberti wrote: > > I am from the RactOS developers. We use GCC/MinGW to compile the > >kernel an the Win32 personality. I am reporting not properly an error, > >but a behaviour you should probably be aware of. > > > >The setup is a bit strange. > > > >1. GCC/MingW 2.95.2 > >2. CygWin 1.1.5 (make, ld, dlltool only; no GCC) > > > >PATH is set to give priority to CygWin binaries. Remember that there is > >no GCC/Cygwin here. > > > >Note that ntoskrnl.exe is compiled and linked regularly by > >gcc/mingw+ld/cygwin. The same for ntdll.dll, kernel32.dll and > >crtdll.dll. It happens something strange when ld is called to link > >advapi32.dll (actually make.exe/cygwin can not load advapi32.dll). > > Cygwin autoloads advapi32.dll. I suspect that if you're building the > DLL this could be a problem. > So, you would need to build new-advapi32.dll and let the install process copy it to the advapi32.dll name. Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com --- --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com