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From: "Liang, James" <jliang AT sandia DOT gov>
To: "'Cygwin List'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: using shared libraries w/o cygwin
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:44:25 -0700
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My current goal is to run my custom build of objcopy WITH cygwin1.dll

Is there a special compile or link time flag that tells it to link the
cygwin1.dll instead of
doing whatever it's doing now that's causing the crashes?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall [mailto:cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 7:59 PM
> To: Liang, James; 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
> Subject: Re: using shared libraries w/o cygwin
> 
> 
> At 07:35 PM 3/9/2004, you wrote:
> >Hi.  I've got a port of objcopy that I'd like to run on 
> Windows systems.
> >I'd rather not have to install cygwin on the machine that
> >I'm going to be running this tool on.
> >
> >The problem I'm having is that whenever I run my program on 
> a file, it
> >appears to have a STACK_VIOLATION on a call to malloc.  
> >It works just fine under Linux, under cygwin, and can print the usage
> >statement and things like that under "DOS", 
> >but crashes in DOS whenever I actually pass it a data file. 
> >
> >So far, the only explanation I can come up with is that 
> there's some sort of
> >failure during the dynamic libraries.  Is there any way I can
> >setup a DOS environment to make it run?  I tried statically 
> linking in bfd,
> >but that didn't seem to the problem either.  Could this be caused
> >by something else?
> 
> 
> The 'objcopy' that comes with the 'binutils' package works fine when 
> invoked directly from a DOS prompt (outside of a Cygwin 
> shell).  Of course,
> that one comes with Cygwin and links to cygwin1.dll.  If you 
> don't want
> to have to install Cygwin or manage a local copy of 
> cygwin1.dll on your
> target systems, then this isn't an option for you.  However, 
> if you're 
> using a custom built version of 'objcopy' that doesn't use 
> cygwin1.dll, 
> then the question is really off-topic for this list.  You'll need to 
> debug the problem yourself. Sorry.
> 
> 
> 
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