Re: slapd : segmentation violation with Mingw/MSYS

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Jean-François Berne wrote:
>    Hello *
> I need help from experienced users concerning openLDAP under Mingw : I
> get a SIGSEGV upon slapd invocation.
> Please take a look at what I did and tell what I do wrong. Perhaps
> someone already had this problem.
> The SIGSEGV is at the end.

> 2. result: you can spot SIGSEGV right at the beginning.
>
> GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2
> [...] This GDB was configured as "mingw32".
> [...] Reading symbols from
> C:\MinGW\openldap-2.4.23\libexec/slapd.exe...(no debugging symbols
> found)...done.
>
> (gdb) start
> Function "main" not defined.
> Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) n
> Starting program: C:\MinGW\openldap-2.4.23\libexec/slapd.exe
> [New Thread 3572.0xbbc]
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x6086ec49 in msys-1!getuid () from C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin\msys-1.0.dll
> (gdb) quit

Looks like you built an MSYS binary, since you're crashing inside the msys 
DLL. That's not a good idea, you should be configuring gcc to build a pure 
Win32 binary instead.

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