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Re: cygwin_create_path import stops executable from running on 1.5 since 1.7.0-63
2009/11/15 Martin Dorey:
> Linking a C program using 1.7.0-63 or 1.7.0-64 causes this runtime error when attempting to run the program on Cygwin 1.5:
>
> "The procedure entry point cygwin_create_path could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll".
>
> This happens with gcc-3 or gcc-4 - it's the Cygwin version that matters. ÂI could reproduce this with a program as simple as:
>
> int main() {
> }
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/msg00203.html leads me to think that the new import comes from Chuck's r1.2 pseudo-reloc.c changes for version 2 pseudo-relocs shortly before -63.
That's fine. Programs compiled on 1.7 aren't designed to be able to
run on 1.5. Before the reloc changes, you'd already get an error if
your program used ctype functions.
(1.5-compiled programs should of course run on 1.7.)
Andy
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