Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:35:58 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Porting my console app... Message-ID: <20001025143558.B10812@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com References: <013001c03eb1$8b083bc0$e2da898b@euler> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <013001c03eb1$8b083bc0$e2da898b@euler>; from jehrling@bio.ri.ccf.org on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 02:29:25PM -0400 On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 02:29:25PM -0400, John Ehrlinger wrote: >I am porting a program from a Unix platform to windows using the cygwin and >mingw. I've managed to get the code to compile across both platforms and am >currently testing and debugging on the windows platform. The program is a >console app that I want to run in native windows (-mno-cygwin) since I'll be >distributing it to outside users. > >My program uses getenv to locate a temporary directory for file storage. I'm >defining the directory environment variable in Windows but my program does >not resolve the variable. I figured in cygwin I can import the windows >environment through the .bash files. Is there another method I should use to >get the windows environment variables when I'm running my app stand alone? I >could conditionally compile around the getenv to a windows method, but I'd >need a pointer to the correct api. > >Sorry if the question is repetitive or simplistic. I'm just a Unix >programmer porting to a windows world. Then don't use -mno-cygwin. It's not a cygwin app at that point. If you need help with your -mno-cygwin program then you should probably check out www.mingw.org . They have pointers to mailing lists that are populated by people who might be used to handling this type of question. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com