Re: [Swarm-Support] RE: Swarm 2.2 Installation

[Marcus G. Daniels]

emcleskey wrote:

> I don't know what version they are up to now but 
> I do recall testing 1.5.7-1 when that came along and I got the same error as 
> with 1.5.6-1.  I can't tell you WHAT in the dll's makes the difference (that's 
> way beyond my capabilities) only that by using version 1.5.5-1 seemed to fix 
> the problem.
>  
I recall the problem has to do with the location of resource table for 
Cygwin that is assigned a fixed address in virtual memory.   Java would 
assume it could allocate big blocks of virtual memory for its own 
purposes and then there would be a conflict and Java would bail.  I 
worked around it once by moving this region to another area, i.e. I 
recompiled the Cygwin DLL.   Ideally both Cygwin and Sun Java would be 
adaptive in this way (or, say, enhance Cygwin to be configurable).  One 
option is to compile using GCJ.  Another would be to port Swarm to mingw32.