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Re: LoadLibrary error 487 (was Re: Please test latest developer snapshot)
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 09:20:21PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Feb 28 21:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Feb 28 14:49, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:01:46AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > >(*) Actually I tried to reproduce the problem on Windows NT4, 2000, XP,
>> > > 2003, 2008, and W7. Only XP was affected at all.
>> >
>> > I tried to reproduce on most of those and saw nothing too. I just don't
>> > know what situation this will crop up in. We don't check specifically
>> > for XP so we may be introducing weird hard-to-diagnose behavior.
>> >
>> > All strange behavior would be guaranteed gone if we loaded the DLL
>> > statically. I wonder if we loaded the DLL statically and only removed
>> > on symbol from the autoload if it would help with any slowness in
>> > linking since we'd still be linking all of the symbols dynamically.
>>
>> This speaks against loading winmm statically:
>>
>> http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/DotNet/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.clr/2007-02/msg00000.html
>>
>> Why not test for XP specificailly and be done with it?
>
>Like this:
I have something like that sitting in my sandbox but I named the flag
"use_dont_resolve_hack". Actually "need_dont_resolve_hack" would
probably be better.
But, at this point, it's nickel and dime so whatever you want to
call it is fine.
Thanks.
(And, btw, I made dll_load explicity inline)
cgf