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Re: First Attempt at a cygwin Project
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-noreply at cygwin dot com>
- To: "Buntain, Dave" <david dot buntain at cirrus dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:15:41 -0400
- Subject: Re: First Attempt at a cygwin Project
- References: <D9B53AB4691DF44F9CD041AAA4DC6A3B04FD71@clbmsg-001.colorado.cirrus.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 07:49:18AM -0600, Buntain, Dave wrote:
>I've read the promotions on CygWin, but have not been able to find a
>list of the CygWin API calls so that I can determine functional
>capability of the Cygwin library. Can you point me to such a list ?
"nm /usr/lib/libcygwin.a". Strip the __imp___ from the front of the symbols
and you'll see all of the available functions.
>I've read that porting the Unix to Windows requires a minimal amount of
>source code changes. Is there a location on the web that is dedicated
>to the porting process, and discusses the problems encountered ?
Porting to cygwin is similar to porting to any other "UNIX" system.
There are some Windows gotchas with things like case insensitive
filename detection, and a more limited number of characters that
can be used in filenames.
Also, the FAQ is your friend.
cgf
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