MinGW build

[Ari Jolma <ari jolma tkk fi>]

Hi,

I've been building things on MinGW. I saw earlier posts on compiling 
Gtk2 on MinGW, two problems were mentioned: too long lines and 
DynaLoader failing to load Gtk2.dll. I solved the too long lines problem 
simply by using xs/*.o instead of the long list. For the 2nd problem I 
don't have a complete solution but I at least manage to get Gtk2.dll 
loaded ok with a tool called "dependency walker", which is a tool for 
debugging DLLs. First I gave the export table of the Glib.dll a better 
name (Glib.dll) than dll.exp.dll using the -D switch of dlltool. The I 
copied the Glib.dll to a directory in a path, so windows finds it. After 
these dependence walker loads Gtk2.dll nicely.

But the DynaLoader still can't load Gtk2.dll. I made a simple test program:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>
int main()
{
   int err;
   LoadLibraryEx("d:\\mingw\\bin\\Gtk2.dll", NULL, 
LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH);
   err = GetLastError();
   fprintf(stderr,"%i\n",err);
}

this gives a strange error 487 (Attempt to access invalid address), of 
which there is not much to be found. Using LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE works.

DLLs which are part of Perl modules usually have the name dll.exp.dll in 
their export table. They are also loaded in the run-time. A wild guess: 
maybe having to specify Glib.dll when Gtk2.dll is linked, leads to 
having to put Glib.dll in the path and maybe it is loaded somehow 
differently than usual Perl module dlls??

Ari

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