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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 06:01:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: Won't compile the simplest of progs.
To: gabriel AT solfin DOT com, Daniel Harry Hawson <u7dhh AT dcs DOT shef DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- Gabriel Galibourg <gabriel AT solfin DOT com> wrote:
> 3) compile the following way:
> g++ -o Progs/key.exe Progs/keypress.cpp -lmsvcrt
> You need to link with msvcrt which is where _getch() is defined. You'll also
> get a warning about the implicit declaration of _getch(), you can always
> clean this up later by creating you own conio.h with the good stuff in it.
> 
> The resulting program works fine under a 'normal' command prompt (cmd.exe)
> but does not work very well under the cygwin bash .
> 
> Gabriel.

NO! Don't mix runtime systems.  You will cause more headaches than you can
imagine.  If you need to use the msvcrt/crtdll functions use the Mingw32
package or the -mno-cygwin switch.  For detail see Mumit Khans site.


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