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Subject: RE: Possible to use pinvoke to call DLL built with cygwin
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 19:57:21 -0000
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On 01 November 2006 20:10, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

> Sammy Yu wrote:

>>   One of the
>> components built is a DLL which I want to invoke from a C Sharp
>> application.  However, the application crashes whenever I call this DLL
>> via pinvoke in C Sharp. 

> You need to initialize the DLL.  Loading the Cygwin DLL from a non-Cygwin
> app doesn't initialize it automatically.  Only Cygwin apps do that.  Off
> the top of my head, I don't recall the details but this has been discussed
> before in the email archives, if you want to poke around a bit for the
> procedure.

  Googling "cygload" should get the details.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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