Ah, now I see it. You have to be careful with your typing.
pseudo_stubs.dll (with one s in the end) is the name that fails.
Apparently both pseudo_stub.dll (no s) and psuedo_stubs.dll (bad
spelling) work. And pseudo_stubss.dll (double s) definitely
works, that
I have tried myself.
You have checked what error 998 actually is?
#define ERROR_NOACCESS 998L
Of course. I have also checked what might cause the error. See: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q196069
I can also say that I have tried to use the pure Win32 LoadLibrary call on the resulting dlls, and the results are consistent with the dlopen results. My guess is that there is something wrong inside the dll, that causes a segfault during dlopen/LoadLibrary.
I cannot believe that it depends on the name of a DLL whether it can be dlopened or not.
Me neither, yet the name appears to be significant in some way.
There must be another error with your test!
Consider this (with source from your first posting): $ gcc -shared -o pseudo_stubs.dll foo.c $ gcc -o load load.c $ ./load pseudo_stubs.dll ok foo.dll dlopen: Win32 error 126 $ cp pseudo_stubs.dll foo.dll $ ./load pseudo_stubs.dll ok foo.dll ok
Hey, that doesn't explain anything. It's like answering someones awk bug report with "see, it works with sed, your test must be wrong". Apart from that, thanks for the example, the project now uses "gcc -shared" with apparent success. So for me, this problem is now academic.
I'm not saying that it is the name of the dll that is causing the problem. If I build the dll as foo.dll with dlltool/dllwrap and rename it to pseudo_stubs.dll, pseudo_stubs.dll works. Also, if I build the dll as pseudo_stubs.dll and rename it foo.dll, foo.dll doesn't work.
I'd say that there is some sort of problem in dlltool/dllwrap. Please enlighten me if I'm using them incorrectly.
Can someone also please say if they get error 998 for the example in the original post, or if that happens on my machine only.
Cheers, Peter
I got the same results on my XP machine (998) as in your original post. Seems to me that renaming was the entire problem but didn't spend much time on it, so that my Quick Assessment(tm).
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