Dear Group, I'd like to follow up on this seemingly abandoned thread.
I just ran into the same problem as reported by Niklas. Googling around brought me to the idea to try to use mingw's gcc flavour to create the desired dll. I just downloaded and uncompressed four of the mingw packages mentioned on http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml (mingw-runtime, w32api, binutils and gcc tarball packages) and followed the hints given here: http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-jni-dll, essentially, mingw-gcc -Wall -D_JNI_IMPLEMENTATION_ -Wl,--kill-at -shared ... The JNI dll created this way works neatly (and doesn't make the JVM croak as the dll created using cygwin's gcc). This may be just a temporary work-around until cygwin's gcc is back on track, but at least one can live with it! cheers, Hans "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > At 02:40 PM 3/10/2004, you wrote: > >Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > >>The core Cygwin DLL (/bin/cygwin1.dll) has no support for dynamic loading. > >>You may have been lucky before in that the functionality you had in your > >>DLL didn't require the loading of the core one. Apparently this has > >>changed between 1.5.5 and 1.5.7. > > > >Right. This seems to be, on the face of it, the same problem that bit the WinCVS users - WinCVS looks for a tcl84.dll in the PATH and automatically dynamically loads it, and if it happens to be a Cygwin-compiled one, it hangs. This also changed after 1.5.6 - before that, it would "work", for some definition of "working". > > > >Someone (I see eyes turning this way :-) needs to debug this, at least to understand what changed.. > > > Dynamic loading of cygwin1.dll has been broken for a very long time. That > doesn't mean it cannot be fixed. Just that figuring out what changed > between 1.5.5 and 1.5.7 and reinstating it would not be a fix. It's > the Cygwin DLL initialization that needs attention really. But I do > expect that everyone would like it if someone got this working again. :-) > > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/