I am not able your patch the next two weeks. If Jacek, Ozkan, or dw
confirm, then patch is oj for appkay.
Kai
Am 18.07.2013 10:14 schrieb "Rafaël Carré" <fun...@videolan.org>:
> Hello,
>
> Le 18/07/2013 21:49, Erik van Pienbroek a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > We recently received some bug reports that executables compiled with
> > mingw-w64 couldn't be executed on Windows XP environments. Users
> > would get fatal error messages which indicate that the symbol strnlen
> > couldn't be found in msvcrt.dll (which is correct for Windows XP).
> >
> > I've verified this with Dependency Walker and some binaries
> > indeed were under the assumption that strnlen is part of msvcrt.dll.
> >
> > This is odd as the mingw-w64 crt contains a wrapper implementation
> > for strnlen (in order to fix these Windows XP compatibility issues). So
> > I investigated further and found out that strnlen is still being
> > referenced in the msvcrt.def files.
> >
> > As other wrapped symbols are also commented out in msvcrt.def I got the
> > impression that wrapped symbols should be removed from msvcrt.def. I did
> > this for strnlen in my local test environment and it indeed caused the
> > strnlen in msvcrt.dll dependency to disappear from compiled binaries.
> >
> > Is this patch the correct solution to fixing this issue or do you think
> > the real cause is somewhere else?
>
> I will let Kai confirm but your patch looks ok to me!
>
> > Regards,
> >
> > Erik van Pienbroek
>
>
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