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Re: [ECOS] Multi-ICE support Status


Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> 
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> /cygdrive/C/Multi-ICE/libraries/toolconf.lib(toolconf.obj.b)(.text+0x2f):..\
> > > > ..\t
> > > > oolconf.c: undefined reference to `_imp___pctype'
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas what library is missing (looks like something from Visual C?)
> > >
> > > Actually it looks like something from Cygwin.
> > >
> > > Cygwin guys, can you help on this? What has changed that has caused
> > > libraries to stop being binary compatible?
> >
> > The internal representation of ctype has changed.  But that's
> > looong ago.  How old are the concerned libs?
> 
> Quite old. When I lasted tested it, it was with fairly old tools as well
> though (GNUPro 00r1).
> 
> Although looking at it again after Benny saying that linking with msvcrt
> helped (but caused a segfault), I don't think these are cygwin symbols
> after all - the library in question was built by MSVC.

Aha! Keith Seitz helped me notice the problem. Duh I'm so blind. There is a
cygwin library libtoolconf.a there, but it's picking up toolconf.lib
instead. Presumably the tools didn't used to.

Benny, rename toolconf.lib to toolconf.lib.ignore and then try again.

Jifl
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