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Subject: RE:  Loading cygwin1.dll from a windows app
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:00:42 -0400
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Antti Karanta wrote:
>   I am trying to load the cygwin1.dll from a windows c app

Why?

>   I am trying to load cygwin1.dll to invoke the cygwin path conver-
> sion functions (to make my program easier to use from cygwin shell).
> I do this to convert the command line params denoting paths or
> files to windows format that the java virtual machine I am launching
> expects.  The jvm is also the reason why I can't compile my app as
> cygwin app - the java jni (java native interface) headers contain 
> windows specific stuff that makes gcc fail, unless -mno-cygwin is
> used. BTW, now that Java  

Basically, I am a lazy programmer, taking the path of least resis-
tance.  If U're running this from bash (what most folks mean by 'the
Cygwin shell'), use command replacement and cygpath, and U don't have
to mess around with a DLL:
~/> groovy $(cygpath -w /path/to/file/in/question/y.xml)

Cygpath with the -w qualifier will convert Cygwin paths to Windows
paths, and U can avoid all the DLL messiness.  This all happens at 
launch, correct?  Launching another process, although it takes time,
is most easliy hidden from the end user at process launch; it's when
U can afford the delay most.  It's at least worth a try.
 
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