Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/11/27/11:01:45
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 06:48:35AM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>--- Jan Beulich <JBeulich AT novell DOT com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the answer, but you mainly missed the point: I want to dynamically
>> load cygwin1.dll (if at all present on the system) and call a single function
>> in it. The problem is not the process of loading the DLL and calling the
>> function (I'm not a beginner after all), but the fact that plainly calling
>> the intended function causes the process to crash due to uninitialized
>> variables within cygwin1.dll. The question thus is - what function(s) do I
>> have to call to initialize cygwin1.dll sufficiently? Thanks again, Jan
>
>Unfortunately, as far as DLL-loading is concerned, I am a beginner.
>Does anyone know how to load cygwin1.dll dynamically (with the proper
>initialization)?
I don't think it is possible, currently. I think dynamic linking to the
cygwin DLL is broken.
FWIW, I am not aware of anyone working on fixing this.
cgf
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