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Re: GCC for Windows help
- From: "Garfield Lewis" <galewis at ca dot ibm dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 17:09:46 -0400
- Subject: Re: GCC for Windows help
Hi,
I would appreciate any help I can get on the attached problem.
Thx,
Garfield A. Lewis
<mailto:galewis@ca.ibm.com>
DB2 UDB Development (905) 413-3438 T/L: 969-3438
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Haven't seen the question come across the cygwin mailing list. Have
you tried that one? cygwin@cywin.com
jerry
On 8 May 2003 at 14:39, "Garfield Lewis" <galewis@ca.ibm.com> wrote:
> Yes, been there done that... The problem is not building the dll it's
> running it. Since their linker strips the relocations out of the dll then
> if the dll is loaded by any proces that happens to not have the preferred
> address free then the dll will not load because cannot fixup the address
> within the dll. It is a stupid default for Windows but seems to be the
case
> here. The --emit-relocs option seems to be what I need, however, so far
all
> my info indicates that this only works for ELF binaries. Using the
> ---enable-auto-image-base is a workaround for now because it chooses an
> address other than 0x10000000 as the preferred load address but it to
will
> fail if the above happens, however less likely.
>
> Thx,
>
> Garfield A. Lewis
> <mailto:galewis@ca.ibm.com>
> DB2 UDB Development (905) 413-3438 T/L: 969-3438
> Intranet
> <http://w3.torolab.ibm.com/~garfield/garfield.html>
> External E-mail
> <mailto:galewis@rogers.com>
> IBM SWS Toronto Laboratory
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