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- To: John Cerney <j-cerney1 at ti dot com>
- Subject: Re:
- From: jman at lx dot net (jman)
- Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 02:25:40 -0500
- CC: Christian Soeller <csoelle at sghms dot ac dot uk>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: Den Internet Service
- References: <BMSMTP8655203230a0182636@dsbmail.itg.ti.com>
- Reply-To: jman at lx dot net
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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