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Subject: RE: Own Compiled Program Immediately Crashes on Startup
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:41:34 +0100
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On 18 July 2007 14:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Jul 18 13:25, Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 18 July 2007 13:16, Hans Streibel wrote:
>> 
>>>>> $ cygcheck `pwd`/jjove.exe
>>>>> C:/cygwin/home/hstreibel/private/src/jove/jove4.16.0.65/jjove.exe
>>>>>   C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses-8.dll
>>>>>     C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
>>>>>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
>>>>>         C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
>>>>>         C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
>>>>>         C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
>>>>> 
>>>> It looks pretty odd to me that the only dll the executable is linked
>>>> against is the cygncurses one, and that the cygwin dll is only linked as
>>>> an indirect dependency of that.
>>> 
>>> How can this link order be changed so that the cygwin dll
>>> is linked in first?
>> 
>>   Well, for a start, you'd need to link against the cygwin dll directly,
>> and it would need to be first on the linker command line.
> 
> Dave, you need more coffee.  The above output is nothing unusual.
> And since when do you need -lcyginw on the linker comand line at all?

  Always, but it is generally placed there for you by the gcc driver - unless
you try and link a program using ld, which was what I was wondering if it had
happened.

>>   Yes, that's how a cygwin executable should look; the first dependency
>> should be directly on the cygwin dll.
> 
> Try cygcheck /bin/ssh.exe

  Hey, I've never seen it before.  I guess it isn't the problem then.  Trouble
is, there's very little else goes on before main.

  Hans, is there any C++ with static objects with constructors in this
program?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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