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Alan needs a DLL guru (was Re: [PATCH] Re: pthread).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Hourihane" <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
Cc: <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: pthread
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:35:41AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > > _XLIBINT_ and NeedLibInsideFlag did not help.
> > > However I can compile win32-x11 with pthread from
> > > (http://sources.redhat.com/win32-x11 and pthread from win32 from
> > > sourceware), and no crashes ;-)
> >
> > Can you compile Xfree86 with the source win32 pthreads? fork() may
> > break, but if that works, you could tell me whats wrong with my code
and
> > I'll write to your spec to fix it. (ahh the beauty of clean room
r/e).
> >
> I've been bashing on this all day and I'll give a better update later.
Coool.. well I'm heading to sleep land shortly :].
> But to put you out of your misery on the win32 pthreads - it still
happens
> with this.
Whew. (I was reassured when you indicated that the problem was
var_p == var instead of
var_p == &var.)
You might want to look at the cygwin-dev and cygwin list archives. Just
search for dll and data|variable|export. I suspect this problem has been
solved many times before.
Rob
> Alan.
>