From: jman@lx.net (jman) Subject: Re: 7 Jun 1997 02:24:28 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33990CF4.2953.cygnus.gnu-win32@lx.net> References: Reply-To: jman@lx.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) Original-To: John Cerney Original-CC: Christian Soeller , gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Howdy, I found to fix this. Let your computer rest a few minutes before ya build. I usually turn it off wait a few minutes turn it back on. Then build this may or may not work for everyone but hey it works for me ;) John Cerney wrote: > > I can verify this. I have seen problems building perl extension lib DLLs on > windows 95 (not NT) due to garbage characters after the base relocation section > of the dll. It seems that if the base relocation section is not terminated by > zeros, then the DLL won't load. DLLs built under windows 95 with gnuwin32 > appear to have garbage characters at the end of the base relocation section. > This appears to happen somewhat randomly. Sometimes the DLL will build fine, > sometimes it won't. > > I built a simple program that will test for this condition (base relocation > section not being terminated by zeros). I will attach it to this message. Just > type dllcheck to use. It will indicate if the DLL is OK or not. > > I am currently using this program for building a port of perl/tk I am working > on. On windows 95, I have a script setup to keep building a DLL until the > dllcheck program says it is OK. This sometimes takes rebuilding the DLL 3 to 4 > times until it builds OK, without the garbage characters at the end of the base > relocation section. > > -John > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Name: dllcheck.exe > Part 1.2 Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream) > Encoding: X-UUENCODE -- Jason L. Esman aka _Jman System Admin. Network Consultant Irc Admin of irc.lx.net(newnet) Co. Owner of Den Internet Services http://www.lx.net && http://www.deninc.com PGP Keys finger jman@lx.net - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".