cyglsa-config not working properly in cygwin 1.7.22
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Jul 29 19:53:00 GMT 2013
On Jul 29 21:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 29 13:21, J. P. Abelanet wrote:
> > On Jul 29, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > No. I can confirm that this happens, and it seems the cyglsa.dll
> > > doesn't get loaded at all. But as for the reason, I have no idea.
> > > It's the same source code we're using for ages. We switched the
> > > compiler to build it, but that's it. So, for some reason, when
> > > building the stuff with mingw-w64-gcc, the result is not runnable.
> > >
> > > Sorry, but I'm at a loss right now.
> > >
> > Thanks for the quick reply. If in the future you have any ideas,
> > I'll be happy to test them out.
>
> I think I found the problem. The older compiler didn't reorder
> functions for optimization purposes, but the new one does. The entry
> point for the cyglsa DLL was not explicitely mentioned, but it was based
> on the fact that it is the first function in the source code.
>
> However, the new compiler reorders function by default with -O2
> optimization. So the entry point was not at the start of the executable
> anymore and the LSA failed to load the cyglsa DLL. I changed the
> Makefile to specify the entry point of the DLL explicitely to make sure
> the right function is called at load time.
>
> This seems to work again in my testing on 32 and 64 bit, but more
> testing never hurts. So I'd like to ask you to check the today's
> developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ and copy the cyglsa
> DLL from the snapshot into /bin/cyglsa. Given that the DLL there isn't
> loaded, you should be able to overwrite it, like this:
>
> On a 32 bit OS:
>
> cp /bin/cyglsa.dll /bin/cyglsa/
>
> On a 64 bit OS:
>
> cp /bin/cyglsa64.dll /bin/cyglsa/
>
> Kep in mind that the x86 snapshots contains both DLLs, while the x86_64
> snapshot only contains the 64 bit DLL.
>
> > Thanks for a great product overall -
>
> Thanks to you for the report! The today's 32 and 64 bit snapshots
> should be uploaded in an hour at the latest.
Snapshots are up.
Corinna
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