Re: distribution suggestion

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 08:45:30AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>Jasmin,
>I've cc'd my reply to the cygwin mailing list as I cannot give you a full
>answer (and I don't _recall_ seeing any mailing items that match to this on
>the list to date).
>
>Cygwiners: There's a neat little game "tuxracer"
>http://tuxracer.sourceforge.net . When I looked at it I found it uses
>cygwin1.dll & glut.. however they distibute cygwin1.dll (which gives rise to
>our favourite conflict).
>
>I suggested packaging cygwin1.dll separately as the runtime will run against
>newer cygwin1.dll's, and users who need it can download it, but this
>obviously needs user knowledge of whats going on :-]---
>
>Is there a good answer to Jasmin's question below?

Renaming cygwin1.dll should have no effect.  As always, the answer is to just
use the most recent version of cygwin1.dll.  It's a no brainer.

However, I hope that, if they are distributing cygwin, they are in
compliance with the GPL.  I assume that since there are conflicts they
are probably releasing B20.1 or something.  That means that they should,
as a minimum, be providing all of the sources that went into building
B20.1 cygwin.

I don't see any reason why an executable compiled with -mno-cygwin would
fail to run on W2K.  I think the best solution is to use -mno-cygwin and
figure out why it doesn't run on W2K.

cgf

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jasmin Patry" <jfpatry@sunspirestudios.com>
>To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
>Cc: <support@sunspirestudios.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 5:12 AM
>Subject: Re: distribution suggestion
>
>
>> On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 08:21:22PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >     I notice you use cygwin1.dll as a support library for tuxracer.
>> >
>> > All windows users that have cygwin1.dll in memory will find tuxracer
>doesn't
>> > work, or stackdumps unless their copy of cygwin1.dll is the same build
>as
>> > yours. The solution is to move or rename the cygwin1.dll from your
>> > distribution.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for pointing this out.  We'd prefer to use mingw32 to
>> compile Tux Racer (hence no cygwin1.dll), but unfortunately the
>> resulting executable doesn't run under Windows 2000.
>>
>> Do you know if renaming cygwin1.dll to something else will work (after
>> re-linking tuxracer against that new dll, of course)?  Or will it still
>> try to use the same shared memory segments as before, resulting in the
>> same problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jasmin
>>
>> --
>> Jasmin Patry                               Lead Programmer, Tux Racer
>> jfpatry@sunspirestudios.com                   http://www.tuxracer.com
>>
>
>
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