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On Aug 21 15:47, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>  On 21/08/2010 3:35 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>Chris [Sutcliffe], can we please revert this change for now?  It breaks
> >>>building Win32 apps, if the link order prefers kernel32.a over advapi32.a.
> >>Done.
> >Thanks.  Are you sure that only CreateProcessAsUserW is affected?
> 
> In a word, no.  I'll have to go through the file function by
> function checking against the other def files...... sigh.
> >>>In theory, shouldn't the gendef script drop symbols from kernel32.def
> >>>which are defined in advapi32.dll?  That would fix the problem, afaics.
> >>That would be ideal, but I'm not sure what the capabilities of
> >>gendef are in this respect.
> >I'm curious, where is that gendef script?  For some reason it isn't part
> >of the w32api sources in CVS.  Wouldn't it make sense to check it in as
> >well?
> 
> Nope, it's already part of Cygwin:
> 
> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=gendef%2Fgendef-1.0-svn2931-1&grep=gendef.exe

Uh, *that* gendef.

Thanks,
Corinna

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