Greetings, Cary Lewis! > When an iPhone is plugged into a windows machine, windows uses the WPD > (windows portable device) infrastructure to expose the photos on the > iPhone as a connected portable device.
There's no Cygwin connector to WPD infrastructure. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI > There is no UNC path to the device. > Windows Explorer has access, and other windows programs like the file > importer, picasa, etc. all can access the photos, so how can this be > done in cygwin? > There is far manager plugin (a COM component) that allows the far > manager program to access the device, but there doesn't seem to be a > way to control far manager cleanly. I was hoping to find a library or > utility to access the photos that I could use in a cygwin bash script. > Does anyone know how to access the WPD components or infrastructure > from inside cygwin? > I know there is the libmtp cygport package, but it doesn't seem to > work along side the WPD inner workings of windows. How exactly it "doesn't work"? "lib" implies the API library. I doubt it would make any difference by itself, unless you use it to write the relevant functionality across it. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 28.01.2015, <00:17> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
