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Re: Using cygwin from win32 (MS VC) app
- From: Jesper Eskilson <jojo at virtutech dot se>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: 15 Apr 2002 11:42:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: Using cygwin from win32 (MS VC) app
- Organization: Virtutech AB
- References: <a9e20v$m01$1@main.gmane.org>
"Kristopher Buschelman" <kbuschelman@attbi.com> writes:
> Then, from the MS-VisualStudio c language code, I make DYNAMIC calls to the
> wrapper routine via GetProcAddress.... It works fine, but making the
> wrapper is a bit less than desirable, not because of the dynamic call --
> which I want anyway.
>
> When I try to make the dynamic call directly to cygwin1.dll (cygwin
> 1.3.10-1), I get a memory access violation -- memory could not be read.
I tried doing the same, but never managed to figure out how to initialize
the DLL in the right fashion.
I resorted to parsing the output from popen("cygpath -w ..."). Not as
elegant, but much simpler.
> My question is, is there something "obvious" I have missed? Why can I not
> do this directly on cygwin1.dll? What happens behind the scenes to make the
> wrapper approach work, while the direct dynamic call fails? Will there be a
> cygwinapi.dll (pick your favorite name) which can be linked to dynamically
> without additional setup like my wrapper dll?
Probably not unless someone wants it bad enough to write it. I don't.
--
/Jesper
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