atoi() missing on Win98, perl extension breaks
Gerrit P. Haase
gp@familiehaase.de
Tue Jan 11 10:24:00 GMT 2005
Jacek Piskozub wrote:
> Gerritt wrote,
>
>> There it is:
>> $ cat ext/Win32CORE/hints/cygwin.pl
>> [...]
>> $self->{LIBS} = [q{ -L/lib/w32api -lnetapi32 -lwininet -lversion -lmpr
>> -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lwinmm -lstdc++ -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid
>> -lcomctl32 -lgdi32 -lcomdlg32 -lntdll }];
>> [...]
>
>
>> Now the question is which of these libs can be removed and which needs
>> to stay?
>
>
>
>
> I believe the real underlying cause is that /lib/w32api/libntdll.a
> contains a atoi function header (I see that in
> http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/w32api/lib/ntdll.def?cvsroot=src
> together with a zillion other WinNT/2K/XP functions). This is wrong
> because Win9x have only a very limited set of functions in ntdll.dll.
Yes, I thought it is a w32api bug at first too. Who is the maintainer
of w32api?
> Or, if you prefer, indiscriminate linking to ntdll.dll in all Windows
> versions is the actual culprit.
Gerrit
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