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Subject: RE: Own Compiled Program Immediately Crashes on Startup
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:28:33 +0100
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On 18 July 2007 11:01, Hans Streibel wrote:

> The package has an explanation on how to compile
> jove under cygwin. I followed that explanation and
> compiling, linking and installing went fine.
> However the resulting program immediately exits when
> I try to start it.
> 
> I even inserted a printf() statement at the very beginning
> of the main() function but its text is not displayed.
> Therefore there seems to be something going wrong at the very
> beginning of the program.

  It may be missing a DLL it needs.  Run "cygcheck </path/to/your/binary>" and
see if the output lists anything missing.




    cheers,
      DaveK
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