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Re: automatic relocation problem? (WAS: problem with 3rd party lib)
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- Subject: Re: automatic relocation problem? (WAS: problem with 3rd party lib)
- From: Thomas Kowatsch <Thomas.Kowatsch AT stest.ch>
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:46:22 +0200
- Organization: Switching Test Solutions AG
- References: <199909161221.HAA06533@mercury.xraylith.wisc.edu>
Mumit Khan wrote:
> Thomas Kowatsch <Thomas.Kowatsch@stest.ch> writes:
> >
> > I think my 3rd party library is using the MSVCRT runtime. Is thereany
> > way I can use this 3rd party lib then and cygwin?
> >
>
> There are times when it will work, and there are times when it won't.
> It's not a simple issue, believe me.
>
> > Is this a general problem that MSVC libraries are not usable? So
> > the 3rd party vendor has to support a cygwin version?
>
> That would be nice of course.
>
> Before you do anything further, please fix your DLL making process and
> *remove* the erroneous entry point. Never override the entry point for
> any DLL unless you really know what you're doing (and if you do, ignore
> the rest of the paragraph). The way to handle this is to simply supply
> your own DllMain that will be called automatically by the default entry
> point. In your case, just don't use the library supplied one (ie., don't
> provide one and the linker will pick up the one in the library) since
> you don't do anything special.
I'm not sure what exactly you mean. Is it the --entry in followingcommand?
dllwrap --export-all --output-def libxx.def --entry DllEntryPoint@12
--implib libxx.a -o libxx.dll
>
>
> Doing the above of course doesn't mean that this particular case is going
> to work of course!
>
> Regards,
> Mumit
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