dll, java, gcc, cygwin

[Glen Fullmer-EGF002]

Hi Mumit,

>>>>> "MK" == Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu> writes:

   MK> Tried something similar, and sure enough, it crashed and burned.
   MK> getenv() probably calls something that calls malloc. If malloc fails,
   MK> the system is pretty much useless.

Yep, also just:

     char *mstr;
     mstr = malloc(100);

fails, in the helloworld example.
     
   MK> Of course, everything seems to work when using mingw, but then you
   MK> lose the POSIX layer.

Yeah, we wouldn't want to do that. ;-)

   MK> problem must be due to some (bad) interaction of MSVC runtime loaded
   MK> by Java and Cygwin runtime loaded by the JNI dll.

Ok, but I don't understand.  So you are saying that Java might be using a
runtime library that is not compatible with the DLL library?

Thanks, 
Glen
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