<div dir="ltr">Are you running erlang with werl.exe? <div>In this case Erlang is started as a Windows application (not a console one) and writing to stdout will not have any effect. If this is the case, try to run your app with erl.exe</div><div><br></div><div>What version of MSVC did you use to build your NIF? Keep in mind that MSVC 2015-2019 have a common CRT, anything older has its own separate incompatible CRT. So you may run into a similar problem where you have 2 MSVC CRTs loaded in your app, which don't play nice together. Sharing non-trivial data between MSVC CRT implementations is considered undefined.</div><div><br></div><div>Erlang 24.x is built with MSVC 2019, so it is using the common 2015-2019 CRT</div><div><br></div><div>Jaka</div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 at 15:25, Brett Hemes <<a href="mailto:brhemes@mmm.com">brhemes@mmm.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Interesting... so I put together a Windows native make file to use cl.exe (vs gcc) from within a Visual Studio developer prompt and in this scenario the segfaults are gone but I don’t get any output to the terminal at all.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Jaka Bac <<a href="mailto:jakabac@gmail.com" target="_blank">jakabac@gmail.com</a>> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 27, 2021 6:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Brett Hemes <<a href="mailto:brhemes@mmm.com" target="_blank">brhemes@mmm.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org" target="_blank">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: NIF calls to enif_fprintf causing segfaults on Windows<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is the segfault a null pointer dereference?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Windows Erlang is built by MSVC and it will run the MSVC CRT initialization code (which will set up stdout). Your NIF DLL is built by MinGW. And its CRT initialization possibly did not run or did not run correctly which in turn leaves the
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 at 23:27, Brett Hemes <<a href="mailto:brhemes@mmm.com" target="_blank">brhemes@mmm.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have recently moved from a Linux environment to Windows and my NIFs that call `enif_fprintf` are causing segfaults.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A simple call such as `enif_fprintf(stdout, “Hello, world!\n”);` will cause issue.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My build setup is:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Windows 10<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* rebar3<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* MSYS2 + MinGW 64-bit + gcc<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have tried in both `erl` and `werl` to the same effect as well as `stdout` and `stderr`...<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone have any insight into what might be the issue?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
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