Invalid DLL on NT.(was Re: Console GUI, bad dll executables)
Eric Britten
ebritten@ea.oac.uci.edu
Tue Jul 15 17:04:00 GMT 1997
When I try to run a program I wrote on NT I get the following error.
The application or DLL c:\temp\gnugui.dll is not a valid Windows NT image.
My program included an exe and its dll. I produced these two executables
with b18. However they will run on Windows 95.
The executables can be found at
http://pages.prodigy.com/britten/gnugui/conguib3a.zip
Using quickview I found that the name of a section dealing with stabs had
some invalid characters. The section was
.stabstri[B]
where i is i with the umlaut and [B] was just an undefinable character
that looks like a box.
I have studied PE images before and seem to remember that section names
can only be 8 characters long. This section is 10 characters long. Could
this be the problem? And if so why doesn't Windows 95 flag this as an
error. If this is the problem I will build the dll without debug info and
post it to my website above by wednesday June 16.
This could be a bug in ld.
Thanks for any help.
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Eric Britten
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ebritten@uci.edu
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