On Jul 29 21:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 29 13:21, J. P. Abelanet wrote: > > On Jul 29, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > > > > No. I can confirm that this happens, and it seems the cyglsa.dll > > > doesn't get loaded at all. But as for the reason, I have no idea. > > > It's the same source code we're using for ages. We switched the > > > compiler to build it, but that's it. So, for some reason, when > > > building the stuff with mingw-w64-gcc, the result is not runnable. > > > > > > Sorry, but I'm at a loss right now. > > > > > Thanks for the quick reply. If in the future you have any ideas, > > I'll be happy to test them out. > > I think I found the problem. The older compiler didn't reorder > functions for optimization purposes, but the new one does. The entry > point for the cyglsa DLL was not explicitely mentioned, but it was based > on the fact that it is the first function in the source code. > > However, the new compiler reorders function by default with -O2 > optimization. So the entry point was not at the start of the executable > anymore and the LSA failed to load the cyglsa DLL. I changed the > Makefile to specify the entry point of the DLL explicitely to make sure > the right function is called at load time. > > This seems to work again in my testing on 32 and 64 bit, but more > testing never hurts. So I'd like to ask you to check the today's > developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ and copy the cyglsa > DLL from the snapshot into /bin/cyglsa. Given that the DLL there isn't > loaded, you should be able to overwrite it, like this: > > On a 32 bit OS: > > cp /bin/cyglsa.dll /bin/cyglsa/ > > On a 64 bit OS: > > cp /bin/cyglsa64.dll /bin/cyglsa/ > > Kep in mind that the x86 snapshots contains both DLLs, while the x86_64 > snapshot only contains the 64 bit DLL. > > > Thanks for a great product overall - > > Thanks to you for the report! The today's 32 and 64 bit snapshots > should be uploaded in an hour at the latest.
Snapshots are up. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
