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RE: How Can I Use the FtpCommand Function with Cygwin?


These makefiles are large, and they came to us from another company, and
there are good business reasons to avoid changing them.  Saying that the
makefiles are going about everything the wrong way is not an option.  


-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
Of Christopher Faylor
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 10:14 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How Can I Use the FtpCommand Function with Cygwin?


On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 06:07:11PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 14 February 2006 17:35, Tischler, Ron wrote:
>>From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Brian Dessent
>>Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 8:01 PM
>
>>"Tischler, Ron" wrote:
>> 
>>>I am trying to use Cygwin to write a PC application that calls the 
>>>function named FtpCommand.  Microsoft documentation that I found 
>>>online says that there is a header named wininet.h and a library 
>>>named wininet.lib to link in.  On my PC, under the Cygwin stuff, I 
>>>see wininet.h, but not wininet.lib.
>
>>Cygwin does not use .lib files, and the naming of libraries is that of

>>unix.  So you use -lfoo to link with libfoo.a (or sometimes
>>libfoo.dll.a) which is the import library for the DLL.
>
>>Thanks for your reply, but the makefiles that I'm using do use .lib 
>>files, and things are following PC rather than unix conventions, and I

>>am already getting wininet.lib, because other stuff that is working 
>>comes from there.
>
>"My makefiles are using the wrong input files"
>
>"Well, get them to use the correct input files"
>
>"But I don't want to change them.  Tell me how to use the wrong files 
>instead."

Actually, it's "But I don't want to change them because that's too
complicated.  Please engage me in a days-long back and forth email
discussion so that I can avoid this complication and painstakingly
figure out how to avoid changing my makefiles."

><smacks self across forehead with large wet fish in sheer despair>

Indeed.

cgf

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