From: paag@tid.es ("Pedro A. Aranda Guti\irrez") Subject: Re: popen() in cygwin.dll 13 Jan 1997 23:57:18 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <32DB2963.10C9.cygnus.gnu-win32@tid.es> References: <199701131644.QAA10467@datazone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Original-To: Corinna Kinchin Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Corinna Kinchin wrote: > > Hi all! > > We're using beta release 17 of cygwin.dll with gcc version 2.7.2, > under Windows NT 4.0. > > I'm finding that the popen() function call always returns NULL. > Has anyone else encountered this? Is it a known "feature"? > > We have Visual C++ 4.0 so if there are any suggestions about how it might > be possible to link in the Microsoft runtime library popen() function > (which does work) Hi Corinna, There's a solution half way between gcc and Vicious C++ : the minimalist GNUWIN32. This project is trying to make the MS C runtime DLL accessible to gcc (cygwin32). Look at it at http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/mingw32.html I've contributed some stuff to it. My experience is very good. One of the things I'm doing now is recompiling all the GNU stuff. I've made some progress and the environment is not too user-unfriendly. Anyway, give it a try. Cheers, -- +--------------------------------------------------------+ | #### Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez | | #### | | #### Telefonica I+D; Network Interconnection Div. | | ==== C./ Emilio Vargas, 6 E-28043 Madrid, Spain | | ==== e-mail : paag@tid.es | | ==== Tlf 34-1-337 47 02 FAX 34-1-337 45 02 | +--------------------------------------------------------+ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".