Re: static vs. shared linking

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mar 31 08:04, Achim Gratz wrote:
> David Stacey writes:
> > Thank you for your reply. I tried this two different ways:
> >
> >   - Running 'rebase -s' on cygcrash_library.dll;
> 
> Better try 'rebase -O' if you're just experimenting.
> 
> >   - Moving 'cygcrash_library.dll' into /usr/bin and triggering a full
> > rebase using 'rebase-trigger full' and then running setup-x86_64.exe.
> 
> As long as it isn't mentioned in /etc/setup/*.lst.gz that won't do
> anything.  You could put the location for your library into a file in
> /var/lib/rebase/user.d to have it picked up by the autorebase.

Rebasing shouldn't matter much in this situation.  The effect doesn't
apply for a rebase problem, and, assuming 64 bit, given the system DLLs
are usually rebased, they are in a completely different memory area
than non-rebased DLLs.


Corinna

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