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Re: Dueling cygwin DLLs


C Wells <s2audi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I knew that solution, but I have inherited 40 scripts
> clocking in at 5 meg by departed staff. Tell me the
> hard way.

In the source code, change all the various IDs that cygwin uses (when time I
tried this, I must have missed one, because the resultant DLLs still
clashed), and recompile Cygwin. Then recompile everything you want to run on
your modified DLL.
Messy, messy, messy.

I suggest you post some more details about how your scripts fail.

Max.


>>> DLL caused many other scripts to fail. I can't debug
>>> the ones it affected. Is there a way to have the top
>>> executeable call the new cygwin1.dll called
>>> cygwin2.dll so it can "find an entry point" and run ?
>>
>> No. (Yes, but far from simple, and harder than just
>> doing as I recommend
>> below.)
>>
>> Install the latest cygwin package, then fix your
>> scripts.


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