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Re: Loading gcc-compiled DLL with Java (JNI) crashes when using newer (>1.5.5) cygwin1.dll


At 02:40 PM 3/10/2004, you wrote:
>Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
>>The core Cygwin DLL (/bin/cygwin1.dll) has no support for dynamic loading.
>>You may have been lucky before in that the functionality you had in your
>>DLL didn't require the loading of the core one.  Apparently this has
>>changed between 1.5.5 and 1.5.7. 
>
>Right. This seems to be, on the face of it, the same problem that bit the WinCVS users - WinCVS looks for a tcl84.dll in the PATH and automatically dynamically loads it, and if it happens to be a Cygwin-compiled one, it hangs. This also changed after 1.5.6 - before that, it would "work", for some definition of "working".
>
>Someone (I see eyes turning this way :-) needs to debug this, at least to understand what changed..


Dynamic loading of cygwin1.dll has been broken for a very long time.  That
doesn't mean it cannot be fixed.  Just that figuring out what changed 
between 1.5.5 and 1.5.7 and reinstating it would not be a fix.  It's 
the Cygwin DLL initialization that needs attention really.  But I do 
expect that everyone would like it if someone got this working again. :-)


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