On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 07:19:07PM +0400, iggor wrote: >>It appears that Cygwin SETUP.EXE at this time is uncompatible with >>Windows 2000, since it uses function GetModuleHandleExA which leads to >>error in searching entry point in kernel32.dll. So, I cannot run setup >>at all, even get help with option. AFAIK, this function is absent in >>all Win2k, not only my SP4, build 2195. > > I finally managed to check this on a virtual machine at home. At work I > could only check the sources and import list for setup.exe to see if > GetModuleHandleExA was referenced and I couldn't see any sign of it. > And, unsurprisingly, when I try setup.exe at home under W2K it does work > fine under Windows Service Pack 4. > > If you're having problems it seems like you either have an old version > of setup.exe or a non-Cygwin version of setup.exe.
The following experiment appears to confirm that setup.exe has nothing to do with GetModuleHandleExA : $ strings ~/Cygwin/setup/setup.exe | grep GetModule GetModuleFileNameW GetModuleHandleA This is a setup.exe built from the CVS sources. The executable downloaded from cygwin.com is compressed, so: $ strings ~/download/setup-1.7.exe | grep GetModule (no output) Csaba -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers. Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts. "Ok, it boots. Which means it must be bug-free and perfect. " -- Linus Torvalds "People disagree with me. I just ignore them." -- Linus Torvalds -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
