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Re: Announce: ioperm-0.2.1 for cygwin released
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:59:11PM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 08:43:21PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > Marcel Telka wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:57:42PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > >> Marcel Telka wrote:
> > >>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:05:43AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >>>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:57:35PM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote:
> >
> >
> > >>>>> This software adds support for ioperm() function to Cygwin.
> > >>> 2. Windows DDK is required for the driver compilation.
> > >> 2. is likely a problem. Are you aware that w32api has some ddk
> > >> support now?
> > > Yes. But this is only at .h level. I need a linker (binutils)...
> > > I'm unaware about any way to compile & link a device driver using
> > > cygwin-only tools :-(
> >
> > It is at very least possible to create a null.sys device driver that
> > implements a /dev/null-style bitbucket device, entirely with cygwin-only
> > tools.
> >
> > There is sample code at:
> > http://reactos.wox.org/download/ddk-sample.tar.gz
>
> This is really very important. I'll try it ASAP. Thank you!
This scenario works. Windows DDK is no longer required for building ioperm.
Thanks.
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