[Mingw-users] .EXE is "not in proper format"?

[Wayne D. <wa...@us...>]

Hi folks.  I'm a bit new to the mingw thing, and though I've been able to
get the latest libxml (2.2.4) and pcre (3.4) compiled into DLLs, I've run
into a weird problem when I try to link them (plus zlib) into another DLL
of mine and then into my 4 programs.  One of the programs works just
great, but two of them won't load at all (see below) and the 4th crashes
on load (which I haven't looked into yet).

The error I'm getting is that the program is "not in the proper format".
Can someone enlighten me as to what this might mean?  Does this indicate
that the compiler generated a bad file?  Or might this mean that I'm doing
something stupid?  Any hints on what I should be on the look-out for would
be appreciated.  (In case you're curious, the programs I'm working on are
the "rbmake" project at sourceforge -- http://rbmake.sourceforge.net/ .)

[I hope this isn't a FAQ or something, but the mailing-list search isn't
working at the moment, and I couldn't find anything that appeared to
mention this with a quick manual search.]

..wayne..