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14 years ago

Cygwin Win32 error 487

Hello all, I am encountering this error when running Cygwin tools in the Nios GUI version 9.1: elf2dat --infile=sss_test.elf --outfile=mem_init/hdl_sim/sdram_0.dat --base=0x0c000000 --end...
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14 years ago

Search the web for info about cygwin failing to load shared libraries and issues emulating fork().

There is a cygwin program that sorts out the base addresses for all shared libraries and can make this all better.

The underlying problem is that windows shared libraries aren't position independant code, so to be sharable they have to load at the same address in every binary. If the 'default' load addresses clash, cygwin can't emulate fork.