Re:

[jman@lx.net (jman)]

Howdy,
 I found to fix this. Let your computer rest a few minutes before ya
build. I usually 
turn it off wait a few minutes turn it back on. Then build this may or
may not work for everyone but hey it works for me ;)

John Cerney wrote:
> 
> I can verify this. I have seen problems building perl extension lib DLLs on
> windows 95 (not NT) due to garbage characters after the base relocation section
> of the dll. It seems that if the base relocation section is not terminated by
> zeros, then the DLL won't load. DLLs built under windows 95 with gnuwin32
> appear to have garbage characters at the end of the base relocation section.
> This appears to happen somewhat randomly. Sometimes the DLL will build fine,
> sometimes it won't.
> 
> I built a simple program that will test for this condition (base relocation
> section not being terminated by zeros). I will attach it to this message. Just
> type dllcheck <dllname> to use. It will indicate if the DLL is OK or not.
> 
> I am currently using this program for building a port of perl/tk I am working
> on. On windows 95, I have a script setup to keep building a DLL until the
> dllcheck program says it is OK. This sometimes takes rebuilding the DLL 3 to 4
> times until it builds OK, without the garbage characters at the end of the base
> relocation section.
> 
> -John
> 
> 
>     ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>                    Name: dllcheck.exe
>     Part 1.2       Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
>                Encoding: X-UUENCODE

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