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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:00:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron AT pdinc DOT us>
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Subject: Re: building device drivers
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On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote:

>
> I don't think that's really going to work.  Cygwin cannot be linked
> statically and even if it could, it was not designed to run in kernel
> space at all.  Cygwin does not try to emulate the linux kernel, just a
> POSIX api.  So low level things like device drivers are not going to
> just port over.  What you need to do is get the Windows DDK and write a
> true windows driver for your device.  Then you can port the userland
> tools using Cygwin and interface with the windows driver.


I am using the DDK. But that being said, inside I would like to use some 
POSIX code.

The problem I am running into, is what Linux considers user space, windows 
does not.

So to port the code, with minimal changes, I have to move it into kernel 
space on windows. IGNORING RED FLAGS THERE.

So that being said, why can't the cygwin libraries be linked statically?


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