Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <37E102BB.1DC9D1F5@stest.ch> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:46:19 +0200 From: Thomas Kowatsch Organization: Switching Test Solutions AG X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Sokolovsky , Cygwin List Subject: Re: automatic relocation problem? (WAS: problem with 3rd party lib) References: <37E0F398.916249DA@stest.ch> <0737.990916@is.lg.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Hello Thomas, > > Thomas Kowatsch wrote: > > TK> Thomas Kowatsch wrote: > > >> Earnie Boyd wrote: > >> > >> > --- Thomas Kowatsch wrote: > >> > > I tracked the problem a litlle bit more down. It seems to me that > >> > -8<- > >> > > 779d0000:/c/WINNT/System32/MSVCRT40.dll > >> > > 78000000:/c/WINNT/system32/MSVCRT.dll > >> > > 780a0000:/c/WINNT/System32/MSVCIRT.dll > >> > > warning: LDR: Automatic DLL Relocation in testit3.exe > >> > > > >> > -8<- > >> > > 61000000:/usr/local/cygnus/cygwin-b20/usr/bin/cygwin1.dll > >> > -8<- > >> > > >> > Your problem is that you're using two different runtimes. > >> > >> I think my 3rd party library is using the MSVCRT runtime. Is thereany > >> way I can use this 3rd party lib then and cygwin? > >> > >> Is this a general problem that MSVC libraries are not usable? So > >> the 3rd party vendor has to support a cygwin version? > > [] > > TK> While I was writing that, I received Mumit's mail saying: > > TK> "There are times when it will work, and there are times when > TK> it won't." > > TK> This is very disappointing as I have no chance of not using that > TK> 3rd party lib. I will have to contact the vendor and check it out. > TK> If I have no luck, then I will have to do a native port :((((((( > > You'd better first answer to yourself do you really need cygwin > in your prog, i.e. comprehensive POSIX implementation. Maybe some > subset (e.g., no fork) will be enough for you? If so just use mingw32 > - it will use msvcrt also (if set up that way). Unfortunately we have a lot of POSIX/UNIX stuff in there includingRPC client and servers and as I understand the RPC implementation of VC is totally different. Regards Tommy > > > TK> Wish me luck > TK> Tommy > > Best regards, > Paul mailto:paul-ml@is.lg.ua -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com