Re: adv programs on amd64

"Desmond Colin Jones" <jonesdes-mhe/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.games.mame.advancemame.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
optimized builds of zlib are known to behave incorrectly (see 
www.linuxfromscratch.org or gentoo ebuild files for details). 

Martin Adrian writes: 

>>I can't get any of the adv products to work on my amd64 (Running XP SP2).
>>I use the latest windows versions and this is what happens:
>>advmenu - Signal 11
>>advmame - Signal 11
>>advscan - crash
> 
> Traced it down via a debug build on advmenu. The crash happens because of an access violation (writing to location 0x00000001) in zlib function InflateInit2.
> When I compile my own version of libz.a (with debug information, without optimizations) the program work fine without crash. 
> 
> My guess is that there is some strange code in the prebuilt libz.a. 
> 
> 
 




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