Does anyone from the Orwell community come here? I need hellp.
I have actually been trying to build the latest versions of a linker since I was finding problems using them last year. So the author has sent me a bunch of the builds. The first 3 build ok but crash when I go to use them. I am using Orwell CPP.
Orwell Dev-C++
I am using the first one that is 32bit for Windows on 32bit XP for home. .
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The setup which includes MinGW32 4.8.1 can be downloaded here (63MB).
I thought either my Orwell build needed updating or something was wrong with my system. So I ran a memory check. 4 hours. No errors. Two hour cpu torture test. No errors. Ran system file check to make sure all critical files were ok. Ran Checkdisk. 4x. Uninstalled the old Orwell. Went in and yanked all leftovers bins.
Downloaded and installed the new Orwell which is only about a year newer than the last build that I had. It compiles the linker fine but crashes upon use. The author compiled a version on his system using Windows 2k and sent me the build. That build runs absolutely fine. The only thing that remains is there is something wrong with Orwell. Unless I'm overlooking something.
Here it is when it runs.Code:C:\Stuff\vlinkver\vlink12g>mkdir objects
C:\Stuff\vlinkver\vlink12g>mingw32-make
gcc -o objects/main.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT main.c
gcc -o objects/support.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT support.c
gcc -o objects/errors.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT errors.c
gcc -o objects/linker.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT linker.c
gcc -o objects/dir.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT dir.c
dir.c: In function 'close_dir':
dir.c:190:5: warning: passing argument 1 of 'free' discards 'const' qualifier fr
om pointer target type [enabled by default]
free(d);
^
In file included from vlink.h:16:0,
from dir.c:18:
c:\stuff\dev-cpp\mingw32\include\stdlib.h:238:38: note: expected 'void *' but ar
gument is of type 'const char *'
_CRTIMP void __cdecl __MINGW_NOTHROW free (void*);
^
gcc -o objects/targets.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT targets.c
gcc -o objects/ar.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT ar.c
gcc -o objects/ldscript.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT ldscript.c
gcc -o objects/pmatch.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT pmatch.c
gcc -o objects/expr.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT expr.c
gcc -o objects/t_amigahunk.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT t_amigahu
nk.c
gcc -o objects/t_elf32.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT t_elf32.c
gcc -o objects/t_elf32ppcbe.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT t_elf32p
pcbe.c
gcc -o objects/t_elf32m68k.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT t_elf32m6
8k.c
gcc -o objects/t_elf32i386.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT t_elf32i3
86.c
gcc -o objects/t_elf32arm.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT t_elf32arm
.c
gcc -o objects/t_elf64.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT t_elf64.c
gcc -o objects/t_aout.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT t_aout.c
gcc -o objects/t_aoutnull.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT t_aoutnull
.c
gcc -o objects/t_aoutm68k.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT t_aoutm68k
.c
gcc -o objects/t_aouti386.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT t_aouti386
.c
gcc -o objects/t_aoutmint.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT t_aoutmint
.c
gcc -o objects/t_ataritos.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT t_ataritos
.c
gcc -o objects/t_rawbin.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT t_rawbin.c
gcc -o objects/t_vobj.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT t_vobj.c
gcc -o objects/version.o -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -DTYPES32BIT version.c
gcc -o vlink objects/main.o objects/support.o objects/errors.o objects/linker.
o objects/dir.o objects/targets.o objects/ar.o objects/ldscript.o objects/pmatch
.o objects/expr.o objects/t_amigahunk.o objects/t_elf32.o objects/t_elf32ppcbe.o
objects/t_elf32m68k.o objects/t_elf32i386.o objects/t_elf32arm.o objects/t_elf6
4.o objects/t_aout.o objects/t_aoutnull.o objects/t_aoutm68k.o objects/t_aouti38
6.o objects/t_aoutmint.o objects/t_ataritos.o objects/t_rawbin.o objects/t_vobj.
o objects/version.o
C:\Stuff\vlinkver\vlink12g>
It always crashes at exactly the same place.Code:C:\jaguar\wrkhello>make
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.
smac -fb startup.s
startup.s[82]: Warning: GPU/DSP code outside of absolute section
vc -DJAGUAR -O2 -c -o jag.o jag.c
warning 208 in function "__main": suspicious loop
vlink12g -t -EB -brawbin1 -Ttext 0x4000 startup.o jag.o -L/jaguar/lib -
lvbcc -o jag.bin
Loading files:
startup.o (aoutnull object)
jag.o (aoutnull object)
/jaguar/lib\libvbcc.a (aoutnull library)
Digesting symbol information:
Joining selected sections:
Copying .text:
Copying .data:
Copying .bss:
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '0xc00000
05'
Stop.
C:\jaguar\wrkhello>
The author tried this and sent me the build. He normally only uses Linux.
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I found a Windows 2000 system with MS Visual Studio C++/.NET 7.0 at work,
in the office. I compiled the recent vlink source with:
nmake -f Makefile.Win32
No problems (no warnings, no errors) while compiling. Executable is fine.
I attached it for you.
Testing it with your Jaguar object files showed no problem either (see
screenshot "vlink.jpg"). I added the -t option to trace what the linker
is doing.
> What do you suggest I do now?
When the attached vlink executable works for you, then there is something
wrong in your build-process.
Which compiler did you use? And how did you compile vlink?
Regards,
The build that he sent me runs fine. No crashes.
Does this problem sound familiar to anyone else? I tried using MS Visual Studio but after a while it ate all my setpaths on my system. It was a monsterous hassle to undo.
If anyone wants I can send the object files to link and the linker source to compile if they also use Orwell and want to try it.
Any help or insight anyone can give me with this would be greatly appreciated.
