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Re: _fnctl64 cannot be found
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Larry Hall wrote:
> At 04:31 PM 3/11/2004, you wrote:
> >I just upgraded from 1.5.5 cygwin to 1.5.7 cygwin.
> >When I try to run it I get _fnctl64 can not be found
> >errors.
> >
> >The reason I upgraded was because I was trying to
> >compile code that was using the >2GB calls like
> >lseek64, fstat64, open64, ...
> >
You do know that this is automatic, right? You don't actually call
lseek64, etc. lseek is translated to lseek64 at link time.
> >What am I missing in my cygwin build, because of these
> >errors?
> >
>
> You can't have upgraded from anything more than Cygwin 1.3.22
> if you're getting this complaint when you run.
>
Not true, his story does make sense.
> 64 bit file operations were introduced for 1.5.1.
>
But, _fcntl64 didn't exist, and lseek didn't return the upper 32 bits
because of a newlib prototype issue, until 1.5.6.
I agree with the reboot or search for a duplicate cygwin1.dll part,
though (assuming he's not trying to link directly to *64 syscalls).
HTH
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