From: dumser@ti.com (James Dumser) Subject: Re: problem using g++ produced program as a WebSite CGI 2 May 1997 07:42:26 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199705021303.IAA23426.cygnus.gnu-win32@lesol1.dseg.ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: cnicol@stk.com (Carl Nicol) Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <199704301524.LAA17683@kansas.stk.com> from "Carl Nicol" at Apr 30, 97 11:27:06 am X-MIMI-Options: headers none X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Wed, 30 Apr 1997 11:27:06 -0500, Carl Nicol wrote: >I have successfully compiled a cgi program that I use on a Linux system >using g++ on Win/95 and it runs fine from the command line, however, when I >try to use it as a CGI program, it dies with an exception error. I have >WinSite calling it using the ../cgi-shl/ directory. Does anyone have any >clues as to what the problem may be? I believe your problem may be that due to some initialization limitations in cygwin.dll, only one user at a time can run cygwin32 programs -- though I am not sure how this relates to Win95. On NT, your webserver would probably run as SYSTEM while you're logged in as something else, thus triggering the problem. If your webserver runs as a Win95 "service," try hitting the page from another computer without being logged in on the web computer -- does that work? You alsom might able to use the same user for both the webserver and your console login to test this theory out. Depending on your program, a simple solution may be to use Mingw32 (Minimalist GCC, http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/6162/gcc.html). This avoids use of cygwin.dll so you won't hit the initialization problem, but you'll also lose the Unix-emulation environment cygwin.dll provides. -- James Dumser 972-462-5335 dumser@ti.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".