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Re: Cygwin lib files

To: dfeustel at mindspring dot com
Subject: Re: Cygwin lib files
From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:45:48 -0500
CC: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
References: <20010126173102.3803.qmail@web1902.mail.yahoo.com> <00ff01c089fa$51865000$275c100a@actfs.co.uk> <010e01c089fb$a825cca0$6701a8c0@dafcor1qondarn>


> It ocurred to me that, if there were a .lib file for the cygwin dll,
> that it could be linked in with and used by VS6 exes that were
> compiled using the cygwin headers. 

Cygwin is more than just a library.  You can't build cygwin programs
with MSVC because MSVC will use the MS runtime; you need to use gcc to
use the cygwin runtime.  Plus, cygwin isn't a .lib and probably never
will be a .lib.  It's a .dll.

You can, however, use LoadLibrary to load the cygwin DLL and manually
initialize it and call *some* of its functions.

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