RE: [GD-Windows] Re: multiply defined functions in libs

[Andras B. <bn...@ma...>]

Okay, I just realized that LIBCD contains much more than just the std c
routines (for example it contains the crt0 itself, and a bunch of other
functions that are required for runtime checks), so I just can't drop LIBCD
altogether (at least not for the debug build).

So I decided to just bite the bullet and implement my own crt0 (which,
eventually doesn't seem to be too hard :) and I also specify the
/FORCE:MULTIPLE linker flag (this will link with multiple definitions,
although you have to make sure, that it's your stuff that gets linked in).

There's a great docs about rolling your own crt0 here:
http://www.microsoft.com/msj/archive/S569.aspx

Cheers,

Andras
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gam...@li...
> [mailto:gam...@li...] On Behalf Of
> Andras Balogh
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 5:07 PM
> To: gam...@li...
> Cc: gam...@li...
> Subject: [GD-Windows] Re: multiply defined functions in libs
> 
> [note: I moved this thread to gamedevlists-windows]
> 
> I'm also fighting with this problem right now. For me the linking error
> only
> happened in the debug build (couldn't figure out why). What I did to solve
> this was to link against LIBC instead of LIBCD (since I don't really need
> the debug version of that library anyway).. So now I have my own malloc in
> place, but this brings some other problems:
> 
> WinMainCRTStartup calls malloc to allocate some memory, and then uses the
> Win32 API function ::HeapSize to query the size of that same memory
> block..
> 
> So it assumes, that malloc uses ::HeapAlloc with the handle _crtheap, but
> of
> course, in this case, it does not (since it is my routine that gets called
> instead)
> 
> So, I'm also stuck.. What can I do? Do I have to roll my own crt
> routines??
> This sounds a bit too hardcore. I would have thought that many people use
> their own memory manager. But how do they solve these things??
> 
> Any ideas are welcome!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Andras
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gam...@li...
> > [mailto:gam...@li...] On Behalf Of
> > Brett Bibby
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 7:58 PM
> > To: Gam...@li...
> > Subject: [GD-General] multiply defined functions in libs
> >
> > I have no idea where to ask this quesiton, so I guess general might be
> > okay.
> >
> > Recently I have switched our memory management to Doug Lea's malloc and
> so
> > far so good.  The biggest problem is that I'm trying to drop in and
> > replace
> > the normal ansi calls.  This generally works although with different
> side
> > effects on different platforms.  For example, CodeWarrior's linker emits
> a
> > warning that multiple "malloc" symbols are defined on Win32, but
> correctly
> > chooses to use mine anyway if I set the link order correctly, and emits
> no
> > warnings at all on PS2 and GCN and seems to use mine silently (although
> > the
> > original malloc is listed in the linker map, just unused!).  On MSVC it
> is
> > an error and won't build the Win32 version.  Since we have 18 target
> > builds
> > across mutliple platforms this is messy.  I can't remove the offending
> > libraries without also removing a bunch of needed functions as they are
> > built into a single library.
> >
> > Is there any sort of pragma or some other way to make sure that all
> > references to memory management functions only see my definition?  It
> > seems
> > that many people must have done this before....
> >
> > If not, the only way I see to fix this properly is to build custom
> release
> > and debug libs from each platform's source and exclude the functions I
> > want
> > to remove <shudder>.
> >
> > Brett
> >
> >
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