Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/08/19/13:00:25
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> I don't think that's really going to work. Cygwin cannot be linked
> statically and even if it could, it was not designed to run in kernel
> space at all. Cygwin does not try to emulate the linux kernel, just a
> POSIX api. So low level things like device drivers are not going to
> just port over. What you need to do is get the Windows DDK and write a
> true windows driver for your device. Then you can port the userland
> tools using Cygwin and interface with the windows driver.
I am using the DDK. But that being said, inside I would like to use some
POSIX code.
The problem I am running into, is what Linux considers user space, windows
does not.
So to port the code, with minimal changes, I have to move it into kernel
space on windows. IGNORING RED FLAGS THERE.
So that being said, why can't the cygwin libraries be linked statically?
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