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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 3
- To: 'Robert Collins' <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>, "Cygx (E-mail)" <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 3
- From: Harold Hunt <Harold at compasstechnologies dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:02:00 -0500
I'm not running with %CYGWIN=ntsec, however, I wonder if some of the failure
cases out there are due to that...
I suppose anyone running NT 4 and Windows 2000 should try the following
line, as Suhaib recommended, if they have %CYGWIN set to 'ntsec':
cd /usr/X11R6/bin
chmod +x xf_dx.dll
Harold
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Collins [mailto:robert.collins@itdomain.com.au]
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 7:58 PM
To: Harold Hunt; Cygx (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 3
Harold,
Are you running with cygwin=ntsec? If you are not you cannot
"set" the x bit. If you are then you _do_ need the x bit set. If you
recall I posted a couple of headaches realted to this a while back when
I first started using ntsec.
when cygwin is set to ntsec, cygwin removes the ntfs execute permissions
unless there is an x bit set, when it adds ntfs execute permissions back
in again.
This affects win2k and NT
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:Harold@compasstechnologies.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 31 October 2000 10:04 AM
> To: Cygx (E-mail)
> Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Overlay and No DirectInput Test 3
>
>
> There seems to be problems loading the xf_dx.dll library,
> even though the
> file exists; I cannot see a relation between my modifications and the
> failure of the library to load, so I added a few debugging
> messages around
> the loading of the library to assist in debugging.
>
> The new tarball is once again available from:
> http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2
>
> Once again, the installation instructions are:
> cp OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2 /usr/X11R6/bin
> cd /usr/X11R6/bin
> mv XWin.exe XWin.orig.exe
> mv xf_dx.dll xf_dx.orig.dll
> bunzip2 OverlayAndNoDITest.tar.bz2
> tar -xf OverlayAndNoDITest.tar
>
> Suhaib, John Fortin, and I removed recognized and removed
> several deprecated
> files from the xf_dx.dll source package; these files were
> being compiled in
> and removing them shaved 40 kB off the size of the compiled
> xf_dx.dll file.
> Special thanks to them for getting me to finally look into
> removing some
> useless files. Alas, adding a few debugging messages caused
> the size to go
> up 8kB, so the total shrink for this release of xf_dx.dll is 32 kB.
>
> I'm starting to think that there might be a problem in the
> way that I am
> tarballing the EXE and the DLL or in the instructions that I
> specify for
> untarballing them; I may be causing a problem with the xf_dx.dll being
> inaccessible to certain users, or, perhaps some versions of
> Windows need to
> have the executable attribute set on the DLL. Pipe up if you have any
> pointers or solutions.
>
> I test each release on a Windows 2000 machine and a Windows 98 machine
> before I post them; I don't have an NT 4 SP6 machine available, so I'd
> appreciate it if someone could give a quick works/doesn't
> work response for
> that platform.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Harold
>