From: billtut AT microsoft DOT com (Bill Tutt) Subject: RE: Moving the default cygwin.dll load location 20 May 1997 19:20:53 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Original-To: "'Geoffrey Noer'" , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.30) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com There really isn't a sensible value AFAIK. The best bet is to make use of bind.exe, and rebase.exe that come with the Win32SDK. Rebase: Reads a series of DLL's and make sure the base addresses of all the DLL's don't conflict. If necessary rebasing the DLL's so they don't have conflicting base addresses. Bind: Bind is a command-line tool that you can use to compute addresses of exported DLL functions. The linker stores addresses of exported DLL functions in a table that is separate from the table that contains the names of the exported DLL functions. Calls to exported DLL functions are made using an indirect jump through the table that contains the addresses. You can minimize load time by using Bind to bypass this lookup. Bind your executable with all of your DLLs, plus the system DLLs, by running Bind once you have installed the application on the computer where you will be running it. The idea behind these 2 programs is something like this: After building the program: Run rebase.exe on the DLL's associated with your program. While installing the program: Run rebase on the DLL's associated with your program. (Also including stuff that's in winnt\system32 woudn't be a bad idea either.) Run bind on your executable images. Unfortunately those 2 files don't appear to be redistributable as far as I can tell.. :( On the up side however.. The functionality in rebase.exe and bind.exe both come from the IMGHLP.DLL. In particular: ReBaseImage, and BindImageEx. Hope this helps, Bill Tutt billtut AT microsoft DOT com Not speaking for Microsoft, just myself. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".