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Re: [Patch] Loading cygwin1.dll from MinGW and MSVC


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.

cgf


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