recompiling cygwin dll problems

Dave Korn dk@artimi.com
Fri Apr 23 09:35:00 GMT 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: 22 April 2004 20:29

> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 02:44:47PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
> >>Or maybe its neither a nor b.. perhaps there's a runtime 
> component? Perhaps you 
> >>can't run two versions of the cygwin dll at one time in 
> separate locations?
> >
> >Bingo!  I guess I should have put an "and" in my first two 
> statements.
> >You can only have *1* DLL built from the Cygwin source resident and 
> >running at any one time.  It wasn't clear to me that this is 
> what you 
> >were doing, otherwise I would have told you that this is a no-no to 
> >start with.
> 
> Actually, that isn't entirely true or you wouldn't be able to run the
> test suite.  Looking at the test suite scripts might be instructive.
> 
> cgf
> (Who knows he'll regret even mentioning this)


  I thought that as long as the shared memory areas had the same format it
ought to be ok; are there many other complications besides that?



    cheers,
       DaveK
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