Re: Avoid collisions between parallel installations of Cygwin

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> Corinna wrote:

>>> One other thought: what about developing the cygwin DLL itself? Every
>>> time you build the DLL and use it without installing (say, in the test
>>> suite) you get yet another entry -- or an update to the existing entry
>>> in the registry corresponding to your customary cygwin DLL build
>>> directory -- in the registry?  That seems awkward.  Maybe (borrowing the
>>> idea above), the cygwin0.dll could be built with the special resources
>>> section indicating "portable" (e.g. don't touch the registry) use, and
>>> during 'make install' when cygwin1.dll is created the special tool could
>>> be used to modify that value...
> 
> Err...no.  I've thought about this some, and the "special tool" would be
> really really difficult. There's no API for writing resources to a
> separate image. You can LoadLibrary a DLL, and access an in-memory copy
> of its resources.  You might even be able to write to that memory
> location.  But you really can't modify the disk image using a public
> API.  So, you'd basically be left with a tool that must reverse-engineer
> the disk image after it is linked, locate the correct symbol, find the
> address...yuck. No thanks.

  Doesn't sound too hard.  http://www.pelib.com/

  Yes, that's an offer to write such a tool, although not in the next couple
of weeks.

    cheers,
      DaveK