From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jman@lx.net (jman) To: John Cerney Cc: Christian Soeller , gnu-win32@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 23:41:00 -0000 Message-id: <33990CF4.2953@lx.net> References: X-SW-Source: 1997-06/msg00189.html 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 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 -- Jason L. Esman aka _Jman System Admin. Network Consultant Irc Admin of irc.lx.net(newnet) Co. Owner of Den Internet Services http://www.lx.net && http://www.deninc.com PGP Keys finger jman@lx.net - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".