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Re: atoi() missing on Win98, perl extension breaks


Jacek Piskozub wrote:

Gerritt wrote,

There it is:
$ cat ext/Win32CORE/hints/cygwin.pl
[...]
$self->{LIBS} = [q{ -L/lib/w32api -lnetapi32 -lwininet -lversion -lmpr -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lwinmm -lstdc++ -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid -lcomctl32 -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -lntdll }];
[...]


Now the question is which of these libs can be removed and which needs
to stay?




I believe the real underlying cause is that /lib/w32api/libntdll.a contains a atoi function header (I see that in http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/w32api/lib/ntdll.def?cvsroot=src together with a zillion other WinNT/2K/XP functions). This is wrong because Win9x have only a very limited set of functions in ntdll.dll.

Yes, I thought it is a w32api bug at first too. Who is the maintainer of w32api?


Or, if you prefer, indiscriminate linking to ntdll.dll in all Windows versions is the actual culprit.


Gerrit
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