question for perl maintainer

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:03:01PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>
>>>Wouldn't this problem be ameliorated slightly if the perl DLLs all
>>>loaded in unique addresses to begin with?  Isn't the problem that all
>>>perl DLLs (and probably others) are loading in address 0x10000000?
>>>
>>>Gerrit, would you be willing to change this so that the DLLs load in
>>>non-default locations?  This would probably help everyone right out
>>>of the box?
>>
>>Sounds good.  WHat is the magic flag I need to add to the link commands?
>
>Would --enable-auto-image-base do it or do I need to specify an address
>with --image-base <address>?  If the second, which address may I use?

--enable-auto-image-base would probably be sufficient -- at least as a
first stab at fixing this problem.  Just make sure that none of the dlls
load into cygwin's load address.

cgf

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