Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Odd linking error

[Ozkan S. <se...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Zigas, Noah <NZ...@mi...> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I’ve been developing an application using MinGW64 and Eclipse.  I go back
> and forth between Windows and Linux.
>
> I’m trying to link with a 3rd party library (the Matrox Imaging Library) for
> video capture.  My initial attempts with the full program fail with an
> Access Violation, 0xc0000005.
>

I assume you are linking using a vendor-provided 64 bit *.lib ?
If yes, that is unsupported. You must generate a corresponding
*.dll.a file from the *.dll, first by running gendef on the dll and
then running dlltool on the def, and then use the *.dll.a instead.

> My next test was a very simple one line test that initializes the Matrox
> library.  That also fails with the same error.  I ran the small test through
> VC2008 as a comparison and it works fine.
>
> gdb doesn’t seem to yield any useful results; it just notes a segfault in
> the library.
>
> Am I missing a compile / link flag that would account for something like
> this?  I’ve tried different optimizations and toggled the debug flag with no
> difference.
>
> I’m running Win7 64 bit on standard hardware.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Noah

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