> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin) > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 2:37 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: How to link with third party libraries using gcc > > Bob McConnell wrote: > > <snip> > > > > Whether the libraries are linked dynamic or static is > irrelevant here. > > The Windows libraries are stored in a different object > format than the > > Unix and Cygwin libraries, and probably have different calling > > The format of Windows and Cygwin libraries are the same. > > > conventions. You can't use MS-Windows libraries without the > appropriate > > tools, usually that means Visual Studio. Cygwin made no > attempt to be > > You can use MS-Windows libraries with Cygwin. Look under the > hood of Cygwin > and you'll see Windows API calls. The typical problems are > matching the > calling conventions and managing resources (heap, etc), as > Dave has already > pointed out. But it's possible, as Cygwin itself illustrates.
So you are suggesting that with the proper header files and a little fiddling I could build and run a Visual Studio.Net project on top of the cygwin DLL and use additional Cygwin libraries in it? That is what it sounds like to me. As an application programmer, I don't look under the hood. I leave that to the kernel programmers that understand the intricacies involved. I already have enough trouble debugging some hardware vendors' libraries. I have attempted to go the other way, with no success. I tried to use Cygwin B.20 to write some MS-Windows services a few years ago. One was a simple TCP/IP socket proxy, and I never could get it to talk with the Service Control Manager. It took about two hours to get it running as a daemon on Slackware and half a day to port it into MSVC6. Bob McConnell -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
