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Re: make: could not load advapi32.dll
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- Subject: Re: make: could not load advapi32.dll
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 06:39:29 -0800 (PST)
--- Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 10:48:10PM +0100, Emanuele Aliberti wrote:
> > I am from the RactOS developers. We use GCC/MinGW to compile the
> >kernel an the Win32 personality. I am reporting not properly an error,
> >but a behaviour you should probably be aware of.
> >
> >The setup is a bit strange.
> >
> >1. GCC/MingW 2.95.2
> >2. CygWin 1.1.5 (make, ld, dlltool only; no GCC)
> >
> >PATH is set to give priority to CygWin binaries. Remember that there is
> >no GCC/Cygwin here.
> >
> >Note that ntoskrnl.exe is compiled and linked regularly by
> >gcc/mingw+ld/cygwin. The same for ntdll.dll, kernel32.dll and
> >crtdll.dll. It happens something strange when ld is called to link
> >advapi32.dll (actually make.exe/cygwin can not load advapi32.dll).
>
> Cygwin autoloads advapi32.dll. I suspect that if you're building the
> DLL this could be a problem.
>
So, you would need to build new-advapi32.dll and let the install process copy
it to the advapi32.dll name.
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
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