[cvsnt] Re: Conrtol Panel will not open

Luigi D. Sandon cp at sandon.it
Fri Oct 7 10:59:10 BST 2005


> I saw a previous post about iconv.dll and using FileMon to track dll's. 
The post was mine, actually... :-)

> (disproving that the application run dir is searched first). The iconv.dll 

Right. But a control panel applet is a DLL run through rundll32.exe that 
happens to be in system32. Therefore the application run dir is system32.

> non-compatible with CVS. Removing it immediately solved the problem with the 

It looks like CVSNT uses a newer version, and because GNU didn't care 
about a little versioning of the DLL name it will cause a lot of 
headaches, being used by a lot of open source software.

> PHP seems to run ok still (I probably removed some obscure functionality 

AFAIK iconv.dll is used for character set conversions. If PHP can't use 
the newer dll, some functionalities may be broken.

-- 
LDS



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