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RE: Bad EXE format (error 193)


On 04 October 2007 14:56, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 04 October 2007 14:21, Lynn Winebarger wrote:
> 
>>    I am trying to get the Larceny Scheme compiler
>> (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/will/Larceny/) to compile (and work)
>> under the most recent stable Cygwin release.  While I have managed to
>> get it to produce a file that very closely resembles a PE file, it
>> apparently is not close enough to satisfy Windows XP Home Edition SP 2.
>>    Unfortunately, objdump and other file analyzers have no problem
>> with the file, while none of the debuggers I tried had anything
>> helpful to say about the problem.  I have compiled other things under
>> Cygwin (PLT Scheme, for example) that not only produced an executable
>> image but produced one Windows would actually run.  I have tried doing
>> a diff against the headers between this and the Larceny image and
>> cannot see a glaring error (but I am not an expert in either Windows
>> executables or Larceny's source code).
>>     I cannot find anything helpful on this error in the mailing list
>> archives.  Is there a tool that would identify the problem, or maybe a
>> kind expert with some guidance on resolving this issue?
> 
>   We might be able to make guesses at what was wrong with the compiled
> program if you told us *in what way* it is "not close enough to satisfy
> Windows XP".  

  Ah.  And I just took a closer look at the subject line.  So I'm guessing you
see an error message along those lines, yes?  Hm.  Does it still happen if you
compile the most basic sort of "hello world" program?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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