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Re: Porting from SUN Solaris to Cygwin


Lerohl, John K wrote:

> We're porting several hundred SLOCs from a SUN Solaris environment to
> Windows XP PCs.  The initial port was done with MKS Toolkit on lab
> machines.  We're looking at using Cygwin for cost reasons.  We have a
> hundred or so users with desktops outside the lab.  
> 
> We're getting an odd error when we try and run some of the Aps on our
> "out-of-lab" machines.  These are the more complex, memory intensive
> Applications.  They're compiling cleanly with Cygwin, but fail to run.
> They return the following error message:
> 
> "*** MapViewOfFileEx(0x740, in_h 0x740) failed, Win32 error 6"
> 
> We had these applications running under Windows 2000, but over the
> holidays, our company upgraded to Windows XP.  Since then - no luck.
> We're currently using the MicroSoft 6.0 C-compiler and .NET Framework
> SDK v1.1.  The Cygwin version we're using is 1.5.11-1.
> 
> Any ideas?

Yes, your problem has nothing to do with Cygwin.

If you are using Microsoft's C compiler then the executable produced only
depends on Microsoft's libraries.  That means they should run with or without
Cygwin.

You are looking at the wrong place (and your Cygwin version is ancient).
-- 
René Berber


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