Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/03/27/08:35:27
i state this one command
#include <stdio>
#include <...> // yeah yah... i forget the source file...
int main(int argc, char* argv)
{
System("blah /path/to/stupud/app/ &");
return(1);
}
// :D
theres the _FULL_ wheight of an app (sans graphics) that launches another app
On 3/26/07, Antti Karanta <antti DOT karanta AT napa DOT fi> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:00:42 +0300, Long, Phillip GOSS
> <Phillip DOT Long AT gossinternational DOT com> wrote:
>
> > Antti Karanta wrote:
> >> I am trying to load the cygwin1.dll from a windows c app
> >
> > Why?
>
> To make the program behave correctly when used in cygwin bash shell. Or,
> more to the point, to make it understand paths given in the cygwin format.
>
>
> >> I am trying to load cygwin1.dll to invoke the cygwin path conver-
> >> sion functions (to make my program easier to use from cygwin shell).
> >> I do this to convert the command line params denoting paths or
> >> files to windows format that the java virtual machine I am launching
> >> expects. The jvm is also the reason why I can't compile my app as
> >> cygwin app - the java jni (java native interface) headers contain
> >> windows specific stuff that makes gcc fail, unless -mno-cygwin is
> >> used. BTW, now that Java
> >
> > Basically, I am a lazy programmer, taking the path of least resis-
> > tance. If U're running this from bash (what most folks mean by 'the
> > Cygwin shell'), use command replacement and cygpath, and U don't have
> > to mess around with a DLL:
> > ~/> groovy $(cygpath -w /path/to/file/in/question/y.xml)
>
> The problem is that groovy is a scripting language, and the program I'm
> working on is the launcher. It would be highly inconvenient for the user
> to have to invoke his scripts that way. Imagine you had to do:
>
> perl $(cygpath -w /path/to/file/in/question/y.pl)
> ruby $(cygpath -w /path/to/file/in/question/y.rb)
>
> Also, since groovy is java based, the user often wants to input a
> classpath, and when in cygwin, he would propably want to give that in
> cygwin format.
>
>
> > Cygpath with the -w qualifier will convert Cygwin paths to Windows
> > paths, and U can avoid all the DLL messiness.
>
> I know about cygpath tool and consider invoking it via the system()
> function as the last resort (if I can't make this work otherwise). It just
> feels clumsy having to launch extenal processes for simple path conversion.
>
>
> > This all happens at launch, correct?
>
> Yes.
>
>
> > Launching another process, although it takes time,
> > is most easliy hidden from the end user at process launch; it's when
> > U can afford the delay most. It's at least worth a try.
>
> That's what I'll have to do if I can't make the dll loading behave. But
> I'm not giving up just yet.
>
>
>
> -Antti-
>
>
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