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To: Danny Sinclair <uf657 AT victoria DOT tc DOT ca>
cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: mingw32 DLL getting main args? 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Oct 1999 03:34:36 PDT."
             <Pine DOT GSO DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT iB1 DOT 0 DOT 991026033214 DOT 1821A-100000 AT vtn1> 
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:22:50 -0500
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT thor DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>

Danny Sinclair <uf657 AT victoria DOT tc DOT ca> writes:
> Why does a DLL, made with Mumit's mingw32 2.95 release, need to call
> msvcrt.dll's __getmainargs?
> 
> When the DLLMainCRTStartup function receives DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH it calls
> _mingw32_init_mainargs, which then calls __getmainargs. I don't want my
> DLL to be dynamicly linked to msvcrt.dll, but it is because of this. Why
> does a DLL need to parse the command line?
> 

Good point. I don't know why it's done that way (it was there when I first
used it). MSVC does not seem to do this, but DLLs created with MSVC are
linked dynamically to MSVCRT.DLL (if you have /MD). I'll do some checking,
and remove the getmainargs if it's not needed.

Regards,
Mumit


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