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Re: make: could not load advapi32.dll


--- Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 10:48:10PM +0100, Emanuele Aliberti wrote:
> >  I am from the RactOS developers. We use GCC/MinGW to compile the
> >kernel an the Win32 personality. I am reporting not properly an error,
> >but a behaviour you should probably be aware of.
> >
> >The setup is a bit strange. 
> >
> >1. GCC/MingW 2.95.2
> >2. CygWin 1.1.5 (make, ld, dlltool only; no GCC)
> >
> >PATH is set to give priority to CygWin binaries. Remember that there is
> >no GCC/Cygwin here.
> >
> >Note that ntoskrnl.exe is compiled and linked regularly by
> >gcc/mingw+ld/cygwin. The same for ntdll.dll, kernel32.dll and
> >crtdll.dll. It happens something strange when ld is called to link
> >advapi32.dll (actually make.exe/cygwin can not load advapi32.dll).
> 
> Cygwin autoloads advapi32.dll.  I suspect that if you're building the
> DLL this could be a problem.
> 

So, you would need to build new-advapi32.dll and let the install process copy
it to the advapi32.dll name.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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