Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border6.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4EF96603.7010001@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:30:27 -0800 From: Dave Yeo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20111221 Firefox/9.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.bugs,comp.os.os2.apps To: Dariusz Piatkowski Subject: Re: VLC 1.1.13 problems anyone? References: <2X_Jq.124962$HA5.70570@newsfe30.ams2> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 395eaa33.news.astraweb.com X-Trace: DXC=nU6oUW]9_CUZio4aKR`fh\L?0kYOcDh@ZZh6hUAQln=UI7g=bIdTQP\mYN?8cTLTKY=94Hn8_@@WRMW@joANW17\XE>AVJPMF=]:iRDn1U8LPV Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.os2.bugs:158 comp.os.os2.apps:700 Dariusz Piatkowski wrote: > Yup, you were right on the money here...gcc446.dll was missing on my > system...installing it allowed VLC to function correctly. Why do so many developers not link in gcc*.dll statically? We've pretty well always done that with Mozilla (I screwed up the recently uploaded SeaMonkey 2.6). The license allows it (GPL with linking exception, Peter got Knut to update the Innotek licensing). Just need to set GCCOPT=-static-libgcc or as I have, set GCCOPT=-pipe -static-libgcc. > > I responded to KO's post, I'm very curious why the behaviour with the missing > DLL...seems so awefully similar to my Firefox experience. Must only be using a small function in gcc446.dll as it does actually start. IIRC there are only a couple of small functions in gcc*.dll. For comparison I built a SeaMonkey with gcc 4.4.6 forgetting to link statically and it wouldn't even start with out gcc446.dll Dave