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Subject: RE: How Can I Use the FtpCommand Function with Cygwin?
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:07:11 -0000
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On 14 February 2006 17:35, Tischler, Ron wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Brian Dessent
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 8:01 PM

> "Tischler, Ron" wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to use Cygwin to write a PC application that calls the
>> function named FtpCommand.  Microsoft documentation that I found
>> online says that there is a header named wininet.h and a library named
>> wininet.lib to link in.  On my PC, under the Cygwin stuff, I see
>> wininet.h, but not wininet.lib.

> Cygwin does not use .lib files, and the naming of libraries is that of
> unix.  So you use -lfoo to link with libfoo.a (or sometimes
> libfoo.dll.a) which is the import library for the DLL.

> Thanks for your reply, but the makefiles that I'm using do use .lib
> files, and things are following PC rather than unix conventions, and I
> am already getting wininet.lib, because other stuff that is working
> comes from there.  



"My makefiles are using the wrong input files"

"Well, get them to use the correct input files"

"But I don't want to change them.  Tell me how to use the wrong files
instead."


<smacks self across forehead with large wet fish in sheer despair>



    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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