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Accessing Cygwin API calls from a native Windows app
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- Subject: Accessing Cygwin API calls from a native Windows app
- From: Jesper Eskilson <jojo at virtutech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:08:17 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: Jesper Eskilson <jojo at virtutech dot com>
Hi!
Is it at all possible to call a Cygwin API function from a native Windows
application? I know that you can't simultaneously link with MSVCRT and
cygwin1.dll at the same time, but I was think rather along the lines of
calling LoadLibrary() on cygwin1.dll and then doing GetProcAddress() on
the API entry point.
I managed to get as far as successfully calling GetProcAddres(), but when
calling the function in question (cygwin_conv_to_win32_path, just for
starters), the program crashed. Something is probably not initialized
correctly.
The reason I'm trying to do this is that I'm trying to get a native
windows application to interoperate smoothly with a Cygwin environment (if
one exists, of course). One important aspect of this is the ability of
understanding Cygwin-style links and mount points.
Any thoughts?
[please cc me on any reply, since I am not a subscriber to the list]
/Jesper
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