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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 07:42:11 +0100
From: Jacek Piskozub <piskozub AT iopan DOT gda DOT pl>
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To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Subject: Re: atoi() missing on Win98, perl extension breaks
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Gerritt wrote,

> There it is:
> $ cat ext/Win32CORE/hints/cygwin.pl
> [...]
> $self->{LIBS} = [q{ -L/lib/w32api -lnetapi32 -lwininet -lversion -lmpr -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lwinmm -lstdc++ -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid -lcomctl32 -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -lntdll }];
> [...]

> Now the question is which of these libs can be removed and which needs
> to stay?



I believe the real underlying cause is that /lib/w32api/libntdll.a 
contains a atoi function header (I see that in 
http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/w32api/lib/ntdll.def?cvsroot=src 
together with a zillion other WinNT/2K/XP functions). This is wrong 
because Win9x have only a very limited set of functions in ntdll.dll.

Or, if you prefer, indiscriminate linking to ntdll.dll in all Windows 
versions is the actual culprit.

Jacek







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