[M3devel] my status on win32

[Tony Hosking]

I'm not sure what I mean since I am a Windows ignoramus.  Jay?

On Jan 19, 2008, at 9:12 PM, Randy Coleburn wrote:

> Hi Tony:
>
> Are you suggesting that when the program is built standalone it  
> maps libraries differently?  I know there is a difference between  
> dynamic vs. static libraries, but are you suggesting that a  
> different library is being mapped than the vendor's equivalent of  
> the dynamic library?  How would I check for this situation?
>
> Your suggestion seems plausible since the source is not recompiled;  
> instead, the linker is used to change the way the EXE is put  
> together and that seems to cause the difference in operation as far  
> as pixmaps are concerned.
>
> Regards,
> Randy
>
> >>> Tony Hosking <hosking at cs.purdue.edu> 1/19/2008 6:47 PM >>>
> I would perhaps suspect a bad library mapping.
>
> On Jan 19, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Olaf Wagner wrote:
>
> > Quoting Randy Coleburn <rcoleburn at scires.com>:
> >> 1.  pixmaps aren't rendered properly on the screen.  They look  
> really
> >> bad.  I recall having this problem a while back with one of the  
> early
> >> 5.x releases, so I guess it was never solved.  I've got some old  
> test
> >> programs I try to dig out and see if I can find out what is going
> >> on.  I
> >> seem to recall that building standalone in the past seemed to  
> fix the
> >> problem, so this is a real mystery.
> >
> > Hi Randy,
> >
> > I'm afraid I wasn't able to solve it directly some years ago and
> > then forgot about it due to more urgent tasks.
> >
> > I think we should try to narrow down the location of the problem
> > (i.e. is it in the runtime, code generation, linker, or windows
> > libraries).
> >
> > As you still have the 4.1 code of the Windows libraries, could you
> > first try to build them with the new compiler and see if it makes
> > a difference if you link against them?
> >
> > It may also be worthwhile to compare the commands actually used
> > for linking (use -commands). That is, before we turn to the actual
> > generated code...
> >
> > I still haven't got Windows access here, so I can just suggest what
> > to do...
> >
> > Olaf
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