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Re: [Patch] Loading cygwin1.dll from MinGW and MSVC
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:15:13PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:12:02PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:42:30PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> >On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 04:09:13PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>> >I guess you could do it that way. It would look more transparent to the
>>> >end user if you did. You'd still have to make it clear that this has to
>>> >happen first thing in the main() function or you could suffer problems
>>> >with automatic initialization or constructors.
>>>
>>> Actually, if you do it that way, there's no reason to pass in main()
>>> since the DLL already knows how to find it.
>>
>>True, provided you're not doing this from a console application which uses
>>WinMain (but then the arguments will all be different as well).
>
>Actually, nevermind. Cygwin only knows the address of main() in true cygwin
>routines.
s/true cygwin routines/true cygwin programs/
cgf