#3752 sdar is not working

[Dmitry Kharitonov]

sdar terminates with a strange error code and does not create a library file.

$ make
rm test.lib
rm: cannot remove `test.lib': No such file or directory
make: [all] Error 1 (ignored)
sdcc  -mmcs51 -c -o a.rel a.c
sdcc  -mmcs51 -c -o b.rel b.c
sdcc -v
SDCC : mcs51/z80/z180/r2k/r2ka/r3ka/sm83/tlcs90/ez80_z80/z80n/r800/ds390/pic16/pic14/TININative/ds400/hc08/s08/stm8/pdk13/pdk14/pdk15/mos6502/mos65c02 TD- 4.4.0 #14620 (MINGW32)
published under GNU General Public License (GPL)
sdar rcs test.lib a.rel b.rel
make: *** [all] Error -1073741701

sdcc-4.4.0-setup.exe - bad
sdcc-4.4.0-rc3-setup.exe - bad
sdcc-4.4.0-rc3-x64-setup.exe - good
sdcc-4.3.0-rc1-setup.exe - good
sdcc-4.3.0-x64-setup.exe - good

[Janko Stamenović]

This can be considered a duplicate of [#3714]

https://sourceforge.net/p/sdcc/bugs/3714/#e483/4c8a

The workaround:

I was able to install 32-bit 4.4.0 #14620 (MINGW32) observe sdar failing to start, but then download PortableGit-2.44.0-32-bit.7z.exe and unpack from it only:

 libwinpthread-1.dll
 libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
 zlib1.dll

From the \mingw32\bin of it, then put these three in the sdcc bin directory where sdar.exe is, and then sdar showed help etc.

GNU ar (sdbinutils derived from GNU Binutils) 2.38

[Dmitry Kharitonov]

I saw this bug report. It was not clear from the behavior whether it crashes or not. I did a simple investigation and found that the sdcc-4.4.0-rc3-x64-setup.exe package works. Now I just switched to sdcc-4.4.0-rc3-x64-setup.exe.
Thanks for the answer.