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Re: distribution suggestion


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?

Rob

----- 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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