Re: Mathlink on Windows and Cygwin
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- Subject: [mg13034] Re: [mg12978] Mathlink on Windows and Cygwin
- From: John Fultz <jfultz>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 00:26:31 -0400
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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I once attempted to create a library for the cygwin stuff (beta 18, I believe...I see they're up to 19, now). I was able to successfully create an ml32i1.a library for linking purposes; however, I had a number of other problems linking related to the standard Win32 API (which left me with a very sour impression of the GNU-Win32 project's level of non-console API support). After fixing those, I discovered that the resulting application crashed before executing the first instruction in main(). Further testing indicated that *any* application with ml32i1.a linked in crashed before executing the first instruction in main() (even if it didn't use any MathLink functions). Simply removing ml32i1.a from the link order caused things to work. I gave up, coming to the conclusion that either their library creation system was too poorly documented for a professional Windows programmer to understand it, or that there was a bug in their runtime libraries that were binding ml32i1.dll at runtime. I'm no longer interested in pursuing this until I see some significant progress in the tools, but if you email me privately, I'll be happy to provide you with the scripts (hackish though they are) I used to create the .a and .exe files. I would be interested to know if anyone has any success here. One additional step I did not try; instead of trying to create a .a file, you could use LoadLibrary() and GetProcAddress() to bind the MathLink functions at runtime. If creating a .a file continues to fail (whether though poor documentation or bugs), runtime binding will probably have a much better chance of success. A further suggestion would be to post your question to the gnu-win32 mailing list (if you haven't already). This question requires less in the way of MathLink expertise, then it does expertise with the GNU-Win32 tools. John Fultz jfultz at wolfram.com Front End Group Wolfram Research, Inc. tanguy Risset wrote: > > Hello > > I am trying to compile an application designed on Unix in C and > Mathematica on a WindowsNT system. > > I use Cygwin (gnu-win32 project, http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/) > to compile my makefile on WindowsNT. > > I have a problem in the linking with of the mathlink libraries > (ml32i1*.lib) > which are apparently does not recognized by the gcc compiler provided by > Cygwin > > If anyone had solved a similar problem, (linking mathlink program with > cygwin), > I'am interested in any advice > > Thank you > > Tanguy Risset > > -- > | Tanguy Risset Tel (from France): 02-99-84-74-60 | > Irisa Tel (not from France): +33 2-99-84-74-60 > > | Campus de Beaulieu Fax: +33-(0)2-99-84-71-71 | 35042 Rennes > E-Mail: risset at irisa.fr | FRANCE > http://www.irisa.fr/api/HOMEPAGE/Risset/
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- Mathlink on Windows and Cygwin
- From: tanguy Risset <Tanguy.Risset@irisa.fr>
- Mathlink on Windows and Cygwin