weird NSISdl crash on Win98 using newish mingw

When building nsis with newish mingw packages, NSISdl crashes on Win98 before any code in NSISdl::download is called (verified by inserting MessageBox calls).

Just wondering if this has come up before? If not, gonna have to do a binary search thru the mingw/gcc svn repository to find the offending version, which does not sound like fun.

The script is the debian win32-loader (aka goodbye-microsof.com).

This is the debian bug:



Anything newer than these versions is borked:

mingw32-binutils 2.16.91-20050827.1-2
mingw32-runtime 3.8-1
mingw32 3.4.4.20050522.1-2

Haven't heard of anything like this before. I can debug a bit if you attach an example.

ignore this thread

Turns out it was a custom plugin not being compiled with the right alignment (-Wl,--file-alignment,512 fixed it):



This does remind me that an example plugin needs to be installed, along with exdll.h and an example Makefile or a README or something so people use the correct flags when building their plugins.

I don't see how file alignment can cause this. There are no correct flags for plug-ins. As long as it's a DLL with an exported function, just as in exdll.c, it's good to go.

Why are the built-in plugins compiled with the file alignment flag then?

Anyway, it did fix the crash on Win98 and WinNT.

The file alignment size setting saves on file sizes. If it fixes the problem, it's probably only by masking the real problem.