Am Montag, den 29.05.2006, 23:30 +0200 schrieb Burkhard Carstens: > Am Montag, 29. Mai 2006 22:47 schrieb Marc Santhoff: > > Hi, > > > > on FreeBSD I use fpOpen, fpIoctl, etc. to drive some generic device. > > In my porting efforts to win32 I have found the more generic > > FileOpen, but no equivalent of fpIoctl or it's underlying unix system > > call ioctl(). > > > > An old win32.hlp told me Windows has "DeviceIoCtl()", but I'm not > > really sure if this is what I need. At least there is ntohing about > > this funtion in the RTL sources of fps 2.0.2. > > DeviceIOControl is the one I use in Delphi to talk to my vxd driver .. > it is linked to kernel32.dll. Should be pretty much what you want.
Okay, I'll give it a try. I oly wanted to make sure there is no meore general (in sense of platform independant) way to do it and my docs are not to old. > > How can I port this calls? > > check, how other winapi calls are implemented .. > I am not that far yet. Did it in Delphi, but now trying to do it on > linux .. This is where I'm coming from (FreeBSD should be as much Posix as Linux, I think). Somewhere deep down in the darkness of NT and OS/2 there must be artefacts of Unix in Windows 2k and XP. ;) Regards, Marc _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
