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Re: atoi() missing on Win98, perl extension breaks (was: Re: bug in w32api?)


On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:02:07PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>Jacek Piskozub wrote:
>
>>When the atom clock displayed 10/01/2005 21:27,  Gerrit P. Haase emitted 
>>the following byte stream:
>>
>>>Jacek Piskozub wrote:
>>>
>>>>After updating to perl 5.8.6-1 I got an missing ntdll.dll export 
>>>>error. Because I use Windows Me, I do not obviously have any 
>>>>ntdll.dll. It seems the new perl was compiled for WindowsNT/2k/Xp only.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>A bug in w32api?
>
>No.  It is the statically linked in Win32CORE extension.
>
>>The offending export is directly from perl.exe, it seems.
>>
>>The error pop-up says the same story:
>>
>>The PERL.EXE file is linked to missing export NTDLL.DLL:atoi
>>
>>All I needed to trigger it was "perl -V".
>
>Hmmm, atoi() is not available on Win98/ME?  Strange.

Why would perl be finding atoi in ntdll.dll?  It should be coming from
the cygwin DLL shouldn't it?

cgf

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