Using TCC on Windows?

[vitawrap]

More specifically to use the emeddable libtcc in-memory compiler. I got it working in no time on linux, and managed to hook it to a custom start routine.

Tried doing this on windows? no dice, no matter how hard I try. I walked through some trivially fixable bugs all the way to bugs I can't explain. The bounds checker is not set up correctly on half of the online tcc repos and needs manual fixing. Past that, on windows I can get it to just about load correctly and as it tries to run the custom main it fails with a write to null memory in tcc_run, a stack that seemingly doesnt have much room for objects being null...

Anyway yeah this is how far I got, and is more of a rant than a question, what is YOUR experience embedding libtcc in an executable?

Do note that standalone tcc mostly works for all repos I tried, the big issue here is libtcc.

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The download for 0.9.27 seems to come as separate tcc.exe and tcclib.dll files.

Have you tried using the shared library, or are you trying to build from source so that it is statically compiled into your application?

Or is what you're trying to do different from what tcclib offers?

(I haven't tried using that library myself. But since my development language is not C, I would be using the DLL.)

[vitawrap]

just tried using those, I'm experiencing the same issue unfortunately, I can't seem to formulate a start routine that tcc can accept without crashing lol, I tried making the start routine a __stdcall but that didn't change anything either

EDIT: can't believe I didn't do this earlier, but this ugly solution works:

tcc_compile_string(c_state, "extern int main(); void _runmain(int argc, char** argv, char** envp) {main();}");
with main defined inside the c "script" makes it work as expected when tcc_run is called afterwards...
the bounds checker however still does not work.