[Patch] Loading cygwin1.dll from MinGW and MSVC

Joshua Daniel Franklin joshuadfranklin@gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 00:54:00 GMT 2005


On 6/3/05, Max Kaehn wrote:
> This patch contains the changes to make it possible to dynamically load
> cygwin1.dll from MinGW and MSVC applications.  The changes to dcrt0.cc are
> minimal and only affect cygwin_dll_init().  I've also added a MinGW test
> program to testsuite and a FAQ so people will be able to locate the
> test program easily.

Assuming the code patches are fine, instead of a new section could we just 
add your FAQ hint to "How do I link against `cygwin1.dll' with Visual Studio?"
<http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC102>
The title could be changed to something like "How do I use `cygwin1.dll' with 
MinGW or Visual Studio?"

I'm a little torn since I'm not sure this is actually frequently asked but it's 
certainly good to have the info. Ideally I can put it in the User's Guide.



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