Re: [Mingw-users] fixed path dll reference

[Bruno C. <bru...@fr...>]

>  > Bruno, one of your dll clearly refenrence a fixed path DLL.
> 
> But I thought that wasn't possible in Windows? Don't DLLs (and EXEs)
> always refer to the DLLs they depend on with basenames only, without
> any path?
> 
> Is this possibility something new in Windows XP, perhaps (though one
> wonders why Microsoft would have introduced this, as it is bound to
> cause huge problems).
> 
I am not using XP. I have WIN2000.
I even edited the DLL by hand in binary to check that. I removed the
fixed path (while keeping the DLL with the same length) and I have been
able to run my binary. Well sort of since it crashes later but it's
another issue :/


>  > Use objdump -X | grep DLL on the DLL you uses to find one that reference
>  > intl.dll with a fixed path.
> 
> Hmm. You mean lower-case -x?
> 
Sorry.

>  > I now found that I use a libgnomecanvas-2-0.dll that has the
>  > problem.
> 
> I wonder how that libgnomecanvas DLL has been built.
> 
No idea.

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