From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8c54bb73b6fd8d22 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Andrew Lynch Subject: Re: GDB Woes Continued... Date: 1998/02/04 Message-ID: <34D81CD3.513@cci.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 321932842 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6b07b3$inj$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> <01bd2e9b$76253380$562c5c8b@aptiva> <6b4k6k$30t$1@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> <8767mwtpg2.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: lynch@cci.de Distribution: world Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Competence Center Informatik GmbH Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > We haven't been able to duplicate these problems so far, and > we have run GDB on a variety of Win95 machines. One observation is > that we are running the latest version of Win95 on pretty much all > machines, not the broken version you can buy in stores, so perhaps > that is one variable. The problem is that it is so easy to break any version of Win95, simply by installing and deinstalling software. Do you know which application placed which version of which DLL in your Windows directory..? This gets even worse with the international versions. Say my German version of Win95 has FOO.DLL version 2 in German. What do I do if an installation wants to replace that with FOO.DLL version 1 English? (At least it is kind enough to ask) Something is bound to go wrong somewhere, whichever choice I make. If you want your application to run on all Win95 machines I guess you might just install any system files your application needs in the required versions and bugger whatever was in there before... (at least *your* application is going to work) This seems to be the approach taken by some vendors. Andrew. P.S. As for GDB: works fine on NT at work, but not on 95 at home ("original" September 95 German Win95 with every other DLL screwed by some installed application)