Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4282997D.DD35CC63@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 16:47:09 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: JNI and cygwin References: <20050511154108.62144.qmail@web54603.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Venkatesh Gopal wrote: > I need terminal and ncurses support and I have a JNI > layer that interacts with > "curses" functions.The JNI wrapper needs to be built > into a shared library. > I have problems using the cygwin libraries with Java > VM. As far as I know, Cygwin1.dll cannot be loaded dynamically using loadlibrary, dlopen, etc. This has been the behavior for quite some time and it's not considered a bug. If anyone wants this functionality I'm sure patches would be welcomed, but that aside I don't think there are any plans to support this. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/