On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:37:58PM +0100, Dirk Kapusta wrote: >Does the latest cygwin dll (1.5.24-2) work on Windows Vista (32 bit)? I use >development tools from Altera which installs cygwin for the gnutools and their >cross compiler. The version of the cygwin1.dll that is installed with their >development tools is Product Version 1.3.23, Build Date 2003-03-27 18:48. I >used this so far on Windows 2000. After installing the development tools on >Vista I get the following error message when opening the bash shell of the SDK: > >C:\altera\quartus51\bin\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** heap allocated but not at >0xF20000 > 3 [main] bash 2972 sync_with_child: child 2600(0x1C4) died before > initialization with status code 0x1 > 137 [main] bash 2972 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for longjmp >bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable >bash-2.05b$ > >I installed the latest cygwin package (1.5.24-2) from the web to a >separate folder and could successfully open a cygwin bash without >errors. I then copied the new cygwin1.dll to Altera's cygwin/bin >directory and now Altera's SDK shell starts without the error message >above, but I still get errors like the following when building a >project in Eclipse. > >4236186 [main] nios2-elf-gcc 2516 fork_copy: linked dll data/bss pass 0 >failed, 0x336000..0x336264, done 0, windows pid 3068, Win32 error 487 >Compiling alt_dev.c... 8 [main] nios2-elf-gcc 2824 fork_copy: linked >dll data/bss pass 0 failed, 0x8A6000..0x8A6264, done 0, windows pid >3948, Win32 error 87
We don't support Altera or any other 3PP <http://cygwin.com/acronyms#3PP> here. However, yes, Cygwin works on Vista. If you want answers about how to get Altera working, however, don't ask us. Ask Altera. Duh? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
