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Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 18:12:38 -0500
From: Greg Hood <ghood AT psc DOT edu>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: dlopen error with nested dll's

I'm trying to dlopen a .dll which depends on another .dll, and
am getting a "Win32 error 127".  I'm not totally sure I am building
the dll's correctly, so that might be one source of the problem.
This is with Cygwin version 1.3.10, gcc version 2.95.3-5,
dlltool version 2.11.92, and Windows NT 4.0.

Here is an example.  There are 3 source files: m.c, a.c, and b.c.
a.c is used to build a.dll, which m.exe can dlopen without problems.
However, b.c is used to build b.dll, but this depends on symbols in
a.dll.  m.exe gets an error upon trying to dlopen b.dll.

------------------------m.c--------------------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <dlfcn.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

main ()
{
  void *a_handle, *b_handle;
  void (*a)(), (*b)();

  if ((a_handle = dlopen("a.dll", RTLD_NOW)) == NULL)
    {
      printf("dlopen of a.dll failed: %s\n", dlerror());
      exit(1);
    }
  if ((a = (void (*)()) dlsym(a_handle, "a")) == NULL)
    {
      printf("dlsym of a failed: %s\n", dlerror());
      exit(1);
    }
  (*a)();

  if ((b_handle = dlopen("b.dll", RTLD_NOW)) == NULL)
    {
      printf("dlopen of b.dll failed: %s\n", dlerror());
      exit(1);
    }
  if ((b = (void (*)()) dlsym(b_handle, "b")) == NULL)
    {
      printf("dlsym of b failed: %s\n", dlerror());
      exit(1);
    }
  (*b)();
}

------------------------end of m.c-------------------------------------
------------------------a.c--------------------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>

void a()
{
  printf("a called.\n");
}
------------------------end of a.c-------------------------------------
------------------------b.c--------------------------------------------
#include "stdio.h"
extern void a();

void b()
{
  printf("b called.\n");
  a();
}
------------------------end of b.c-------------------------------------

I compile and run these with the following commands:
gcc -g -c -o m.o m.c
gcc -g -c -o a.o a.c
gcc -shared -o a.dll a.o
gcc -g -c -o b.o b.c
echo EXPORTS > a.def
nm a.dll | grep ' T _' | sed 's/.* T _//' >> a.def
dlltool --def a.def --dllname a.dll --output-lib a.a
gcc -shared -o b.dll b.o a.a
gcc -g -o m.exe m.o

./m.exe
a called.
dlopen of b.dll failed: dlopen: Win32 error 127

Any idea what is going wrong, or what else to try?
Thanks.
--Greg Hood
  Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

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