Re: [Botan-devel] Re: compiling botan on cygwin linking with windows libraries inst ead cygwin

[Jack L. <ll...@ra...>]

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 06:11:15PM -0600, Carathimas, Anthony G wrote:
> Actually your test program doesn't work when I compile with -mno-cygwin
> param., it's results are:
> 
> g++ -mno-cygwin test.cpp -o test
> ./test
> 0 0
> 
> So I guess I need a way to compile botan with out using /dev/urandom.

No, this is what would be expected - without Cygwin, no /dev/urandom, so the
read fails, so it then Botan will continue down the list trying other entropy
sources. Based on your report of the crash in Botan when reading /dev/urandom
through an ifstream, I would have expected that test.cpp would result in a
crash as well. The fact that it doesn't is rather worrisome.

-J