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Re: DDD 3.3.8 (i686-pc-cygwin) gets `Segmentation fault WAS Re: c ompiling DDD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold L Hunt II" <huntharo@msu.edu>
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin.xfree,gmane.comp.debugging.ddd.bugs
Cc: <bug-ddd@gnu.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: DDD 3.3.8 (i686-pc-cygwin) gets `Segmentation fault WAS Re: c
ompiling DDD
> Richard Campbell wrote:
> >>http://www.lesstif.org/INSTALL.html
> >
> > "On windows using Cygwin, U/WIN or Interix, LessTif must be built as
> > static libraries. Because, one of the biggest issues with X on Win32
> > is the moronic DLL format. Specifically - it is not possible to export
> > data from a Win32 DLL in a form that can be used to statically
initialize
> > another global variable. Data access from a DLL requires at least one
> > pointer indirection, and hence executable code. This is why X11R6
doesn't
> > have DLLs for Xt/Xmu/Xaw (and Motif) on Win32."
> >
> > If yes, these rules have been changing. Brian, isn't this what you
> > were specifically working on recently?
>
> The statement in quotes above is now misleading and completely
> incorrect. We are distributing *only* a shared version of LessTif on
> Cygwin now. The various problems mentioned in the quote all have
> work-arounds, some of which were already used by OS/2; we enabled those
> work-arounds and adding one or two more of our own and the shared
> LessTif library compiles and works fine now.
>
Fill free to contact the lesstif guys to fix it.
Regards,