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Re: Problem building with old include and libs for newer DLL?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 11:18:47 +0200
- Subject: Re: Problem building with old include and libs for newer DLL?
- References: <20030705043946.GA29800@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 12:39:46AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I was just trying to build a new version of binutils but I wasn't having
> much luck getting as to work. The problem was stack corruption when
> as called stat().
>
> Aha, says I. That's because of the new 64 bit stuff. I didn't update
> my cross-build environment. So, I dutifully did so.
>
> But, now that I think of it, should this have worked without updating to
> new header files and libraries? Shouldn't the old headers and libraries
> have worked? Shouldn't the binary have used the older 32 bit interface?
If headers and libcygwin.a match, then yes, it should work. Headers and
libcygwin.a depend on each other.
Corinna
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