From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: Sockets in gnu-win32
3 Dec 1996 02:33:53 -0800 :
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David Makepeace wrote:

>Would it be possible to change cygwin.dll to link to winsock.dll via
>LoadLibrary() and GetProcAddress()?

It is not necessary.
>
>This way cygwin.dll could export foo instead of cygwin32_foo, those nasty
>#defines could go and there would be no problems with multiple
>definitions.  If necessary, it would even be possible to use WinSock
>directly (by putting it on the link line before -lcygwin) without any
>problems - other than the usual WinSock problems.
:-)

There aren't any problems with function names, because cygwin.dll will 
export unix names of socket functions (socket(), for example), but 
wsock32.dll exports WINAPI-compatible names (socket AT 12()).


Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia

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