[Mono-dev] Windows build

[Jonathan Chambers]

Kornel,
     I can test with your suggestion, but I am in the same situation as you.
It works fine for me, so to test I'll just have to commit and see how the
buildbot handles it.

Thanks,
Jonathan

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Kornél Pál <kornelpal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Because even __ImageBase works for me on my cygwin installation, I'm unsure
> about older cygwin versions, so I would like to ask you or someone else to
> test __image_base__ (with the previous version that was using __ImageBase):
>
> >     modify coree.h:
> >     /* Defined by the linker. */
> >     #ifndef _MSC_VER
> >     #define __ImageBase __image_base__
> >     #endif
> >     extern IMAGE_DOS_HEADER __ImageBase MONO_INTERNAL;
>
> If this works, I would prefer this solution because it's only a three line
> patch and image base will be updated uisng relocation rather than by the
> entrypoint that makes mono.dll able to function before the entry point is
> called.
>
> Kornél
>
> Jonathan Chambers wrote:
>
>> Kornel,
>>     I reverted your changes related to __ImageBase yesterday in hopes of
>> getting something working. The build machine has historically had a (very)
>> old version of cygwin, as upgrading cygwin in the past has cause problems.
>> However, it would be nice to upgrade the cygwin on the build machine at some
>> point; I am not sure who is responsible for that in Novell.
>>
>>    In any case, my changes seem to have fixed the build. See:
>> http://mono.ximian.com/monobuild/python/monobuild.py/packagestatus?platform=win-4-i386&package=mono&HEAD_or_RELEASE=HEAD<
>> http://mono.ximian.com/monobuild/python/monobuild.py/packagestatus?platform=win-4-i386&package=mono&HEAD_or_RELEASE=HEAD
>> >
>>
>>     If you wish to try something else to fix the issue, please respond
>> soon. If not I'll backport my change to the 2.0 branch so the win32 version
>> of the release can move forward.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:34 AM, Kornél Pál <kornelpal at gmail.com <mailto:
>> kornelpal at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hi,
>>
>>    __ImageBase works for me on cygwin as well. Aren't you using some
>>    old ld version?
>>
>>    Could you please try if __image_base__ works?
>>
>>    modify coree.h:
>>    /* Defined by the linker. */
>>    #ifndef _MSC_VER
>>    #define __ImageBase __image_base__
>>    #endif
>>    extern IMAGE_DOS_HEADER __ImageBase MONO_INTERNAL;
>>
>>    Thanks.
>>
>>    Kornél
>>
>>
>>    Andreas Nahr wrote:
>>
>>        Has already been fixed yesterday after my posting.
>>
>>        Greetings
>>        Andreas
>>
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>>            "Andreas Nahr" <classdevelopment at a-softtech.com
>>            <mailto:classdevelopment at a-softtech.com>> wrote on 15.07.2008
>>            22:34:00:
>>
>>                Could somebody please fix the windows build? It has been
>>                broken for
>>
>>            ages now...
>>
>>                Happy Hacking
>>                Andreas
>>
>>            Hi Andreas,
>>
>>            What exactly is broken in Windows build? I built Mono
>>            successfully in
>>            both Cygwin environment and using VS 2005.
>>
>>            Although if I remember correctly I had to tweak include
>>            paths a little
>>            bit.
>>
>>            Regards,
>>            Miha
>>
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