cygwin_create_path import stops executable from running on 1.5 since 1.7.0-63

Andy Koppe andy.koppe@gmail.com
Sun Nov 15 23:33:00 GMT 2009


2009/11/15 Martin Dorey:
>> Before the reloc changes, you'd already get an error if
>> your program used ctype functions.
>
> Thinking it might be useful to get the error messages into the googlotron, I tried to demonstrate this with little programs like this:
>
> $ cat /tmp/ctype.c
> #include <ctype.h>
>
> int main() {
>  return tolower(' ');
> }
> $
>
> I didn't have any problems running any of them with 1.5, whose cygwin1.dll exports many plausible-looking names from ctype.h.

"The procedure entry point __ctype_ptr__ could not be located in the
dynamic link library cygwin1.dll."

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