[ECOS] Problems building eCos under WinNT

[Jonathan Larmour]

Christian Grebe wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> we are trying hard to build eCos 1.3.1 for a sh-elf target under WinNT.
> 
> With the 1.1.1 cygwin we had problems with strange chars in eCos configtool
> generated makefiles. Some faq stated that cygwin 1.1.2 should help and it did.
> But now our 2.95.2-1 gcc does not work anymore. Simpliy trying to run gcc gives
> following error:
> 
> ...sh-elf-gcc.exe: *** shared region is corrupted.  inited 15
>       0 [main] ? 0 lock_pinfo_for_update: rc 0, pinfo_mutex 0xFFFFFFFF, Win32
> error 6
> 
> I know this sounds like a cygwin fault but my more general question is:

There's a fundamental problem here - this indicates there are two cygwin
dlls on your system, and new tools are unlikely to help. Search your system
for "cygwin1.dll" and be sure to rename away or delete the old one.

Jifl
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