From: ebritten@ea.oac.uci.edu (Eric Britten) Subject: Invalid DLL on NT.(was Re: Console GUI, bad dll executables) 15 Jul 1997 18:20:45 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-To: gnu-win32 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com When I try to run a program I wrote on NT I get the following error. The application or DLL c:\temp\gnugui.dll is not a valid Windows NT image. My program included an exe and its dll. I produced these two executables with b18. However they will run on Windows 95. The executables can be found at http://pages.prodigy.com/britten/gnugui/conguib3a.zip Using quickview I found that the name of a section dealing with stabs had some invalid characters. The section was ..stabstri[B] where i is i with the umlaut and [B] was just an undefinable character that looks like a box. I have studied PE images before and seem to remember that section names can only be 8 characters long. This section is 10 characters long. Could this be the problem? And if so why doesn't Windows 95 flag this as an error. If this is the problem I will build the dll without debug info and post it to my website above by wednesday June 16. This could be a bug in ld. Thanks for any help. ----------------------------------------------- Eric Britten Treasurer President Elect Chemical Engineering Honor Society ebritten@uci.edu ----------------------------------------------- - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".