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Re: Won't compile the simplest of progs.
- To: gabriel AT solfin dot com, Daniel Harry Hawson <u7dhh AT dcs.shef.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: Won't compile the simplest of progs.
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 06:01:39 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: cygwin AT sourceware.cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo dot com
--- Gabriel Galibourg <gabriel@solfin.com> wrote:
> 3) compile the following way:
> g++ -o Progs/key.exe Progs/keypress.cpp -lmsvcrt
> You need to link with msvcrt which is where _getch() is defined. You'll also
> get a warning about the implicit declaration of _getch(), you can always
> clean this up later by creating you own conio.h with the good stuff in it.
>
> The resulting program works fine under a 'normal' command prompt (cmd.exe)
> but does not work very well under the cygwin bash .
>
> Gabriel.
NO! Don't mix runtime systems. You will cause more headaches than you can
imagine. If you need to use the msvcrt/crtdll functions use the Mingw32
package or the -mno-cygwin switch. For detail see Mumit Khans site.
===
Earnie Boyd <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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