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Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 13:10:06 -0400
To: Venkatesh Gopal <venkatesh_gopal AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re:JNI and cygwin
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At 11:41 AM 5/11/2005, you 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.
>
>I have a smaller example that can reproduce the
>issue...
>
>The shared library when compiled with the -mno-cygwin
>option works without any
>issues, however, when I remove this option, the
>compilation goes fine, but when
>I try and run the java program the VM hangs. This
>issue has been reported
>earlier. Has this problem been fixed?


If it has, I don't recall that fact being reported on this list.


>I need to use the "cygwin" libraries for getting
>"curses" support.


Why?  If a MinGW version (i.e. built with -mno-cygwin) will work for you,
why not just use it?


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