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Re: Problem with -mno-cygwin compile


Craig Lanning <lanning@scra.org> writes:
> 
> My environment is
>    Windows 98
>    Cygwin b20.1 + 2/21 snapshot
>    gcc 2.95.2
> 
> If I compile the code below with -mno-cygwin it complains about the
> symbol _environ_dll not being resolved.  (I have been seeing this
> problem for a couple of months.)  If I compile it without -mno-cygwin
> it works fine.  Is there something else I need to do to get it to work
> with -mno-cygwin?
> 
> Craig Lanning
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> 
> extern char **environ;
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Sorry, but you can't declare environ like this. Just omit the declaration
and you should be fine. The `environ' symbol is a macro and you're
essentially overriding it with your own and the linker can't find the
real thing. 

Regards,
Mumit


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