Mail Archives: cygwin/2007/06/26/13:31:33
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Frederich, Eric P21322 wrote:
> > From: cygwin-owner AT XXXXXX DOT XXX
> > [mailto:cygwin-owner AT XXXXXX DOT XXX] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:22 PM
> > To: cygwin AT XXXXXX DOT XXX
<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks.
> > Subject: Re: undefined reference to `__imp___iob'
> >
> > "Frederich, Eric P21322" wrote:
> >
> > > Are there any tips to compile compatible libraries with msys /
> > > cygwin?
> > > Is it even possible?
> > > Am I missing a gcc option?
> >
> > No, it's not possible.
> >
> > Cygwin libraries use the Cygwin runtime. MinGW/MSYS libraries use the
> > Microsoft (MSVCRT) runtime. These are two inherently different and
> > incompatible implementations of a C runtime, so you can't
> > link a program
> > that uses both and expect it to work.
> >
> > It is technically possible if you are very sure of what you're doing,
> > but this would involve making sure that all C functions are
> > resolved to
> > the correct library. For example, printf() in the MinGW code must go
> > to MSVCRT, printf() in the Cygwin code must go to
> > cygwin1.dll. The only
> > way I can think to do this is with LoadLibrary()/GetProcAddress() and
> > function pointers for everything. It also would mean that no
> > C library
> > data structures could be passed between the two, such as file
> > descriptors, FILE *, struct stat, etc. It would be an extremely
> > inconvent way to write code, and it would be much easier and
> > cleaner to
> > just compile all code as Cygwin code or all code as native (MSVCRT)
> > code.
> >
> > Brian
>
> Thanks for your reply.
> Does everything you say hold true even if I compile with the -mno-cygwin
> option?
Not everything, but how were we to know you were using -mno-cygwin?
> The program I was talking about linked to 4 libraries so I made a small
> main.c and just tried adding one library at a time. I wrote a small
> program to link against a single library and it worked. I was passing
> around FILE pointers and that worked okay too. From main.c I did the
> fopen and fclose and wrote to the file using the msys/mingw compiled
> library. Was I just lucky?
> When I tried adding in another library I got those errors again.
>
> Apparently I'm confused. I thought that when I compile with -mno-cygwin
> it was the same as using msys/mingw.
It is, unless you explicitly inlcude a Cygwin header. Please provide the
exact compiler invocation and the exact errors you get.
Igor
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