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To: "Jesper Eskilson" <jojo AT virtutech DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Accessing Cygwin API calls from a native Windows app
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 05:04:41 -0500
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-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
[mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com]On Behalf Of Jesper Eskilson
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 5:08 AM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Cc: Jesper Eskilson
Subject: Accessing Cygwin API calls from a native Windows app



Hi!

Is it at all possible to call a Cygwin API function from a native Windows
application? I know that you can't simultaneously link with MSVCRT and
cygwin1.dll at the same time, but I was think rather along the lines of
calling LoadLibrary() on cygwin1.dll and then doing GetProcAddress() on
the API entry point.

I managed to get as far as successfully calling GetProcAddres(), but when
calling the function in question (cygwin_conv_to_win32_path, just for
starters), the program crashed. Something is probably not initialized
correctly.

The reason I'm trying to do this is that I'm trying to get a native
windows application to interoperate smoothly with a Cygwin environment (if
one exists, of course). One important aspect of this is the ability of
understanding Cygwin-style links and mount points.

Any thoughts?

[please cc me on any reply, since I am not a subscriber to the list]

/Jesper
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Jesper Eskilson                                         jojo AT virtutech DOT se
Virtutech                                         http://www.virtutech.se
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