Announce: ioperm-0.2.1 for cygwin released

Max Bowsher maxb@ukf.net
Tue Jan 21 04:43:00 GMT 2003


Marcel Telka wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:57:42PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Marcel Telka wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:05:43AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:57:35PM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote:


>>>>> This software adds support for ioperm() function to Cygwin.
>>> 2. Windows DDK is required for the driver compilation.
>> 2. is likely a problem. Are you aware that w32api has some ddk
>> support now?
> Yes. But this is only at .h level. I need a linker (binutils)...
> I'm unaware about any way to compile & link a device driver using
> cygwin-only tools :-(

It is at very least possible to create a null.sys device driver that
implements a /dev/null-style bitbucket device, entirely with cygwin-only
tools.

There is sample code at:
http://reactos.wox.org/download/ddk-sample.tar.gz

I found that the current libntoskrnl.a in w32api-2.1 was too undeveloped to
support compilation of this sample. However, installing w32api-cvs solved
that problem.


Food for thought, anyway. I don't know how mature the mingw ddk is, but its
probably worth a try.


Max.


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