under cygwin, zsh cannot run when built against ncurses9-5.7-13

Fri Mar 13 22:14:00 GMT 2009

Vin Shelton wrote:
> When I build the latest zsh sources on Cygwin 1.7 using
> ncurses8-5.5.3, I get a working zsh. When I build the same zsh
> sources against ncurses9-5.7-13, although the build completes
> successfully, the executable will not run:
>> $ /usr/local/zsh-2009年03月11日/bin/zsh -f
> $ echo $?
> 127
>> My guess is that some kind of runtime dependency is missing, but:
>> $ cygcheck /usr/local/zsh-2009年03月11日/bin/zsh.exe
> C:\cygwin\usr\local\zsh-2009年03月11日\bin\zsh.exe
> C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\RPCRT4.dll
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\Secur32.dll
> C:\cygwin\usr\local\zsh-2009年03月11日\bin\libzsh-4.3.9-dev-1.dll
> C:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll
> C:\cygwin\bin\cygncurses-9.dll
> C:\cygwin\bin\cyggcc_s-1.dll

Just for grins, could you rebuild zsh against libncurses9 -- but this
time use gcc3? cygiconv-2 and cygncurses-9 use the static gcc-3.4.4
libgcc.a, but you are apparently using the gcc-4.3.2 shared libgcc.
I just wonder if that presents an incompatibility that could explain
what you are seeing.
--
Chuck
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