[naviserver-devel] 32-bit Naviserver fails on Windows

[Andrew P. <at...@pi...>]

Well, I belatedly realized that I need to build a 32-bit Naviserver on
my 64-bit Windows 7 box.

(The old proprietary library I currently need to link against is only
available in 32-bit.  I hope to port to a newer library, but first I
need to get my old code actually working with Naviserver on this box.)

So I configured my command prompt build with "/x86" rather than "/x64",
like so:

  "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\SetEnv.Cmd" /Debug /x86 /win7
  nmake -f Makefile.win32 all-core

My branch includes better build support for 32-bit (although still not
yet good enough):

  https://bitbucket.org/apiskors/naviserver/commits/all

My new 32-bit Naviserver can't even run "nsd -h"!  It dies immediately
with:

  The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b).
  Click OK to close the application.

Looks like it dies before invoke any Naviserver or Tcl code at all, so
I think either I've linked Naviserver wrong, or something is broken on
my Windows box.

I verified that all my compiled Naviserver code is indeed 32-bit with
this:

  dumpbin /headers *.exe *.dll | findstr machine

Oddly, Dependency Walker thinks that ALL of the external DLLs nsd.exe
is using are 64-bit!  That would be very bad, but I'm not sure if it's
actually true.  Reports on the web say that Dependency Walker can
incorrectly report such problems because it doesn't ignore 64-bit
libraries the sam way Windows itself does.

  http://www.dependencywalker.com/

Naviserver's include/Makefile.win32 links against these Windows
libraries:

  kernel32.lib advapi32.lib ws2_32.lib user32.lib

Do I need to do something special to find the 32-bit versions of
those?

-- 
Andrew Piskorski <at...@pi...>