From: banders@ECD.Rockwell.COM (Bartlee A. Anderson) Subject: Re: [Q]: Newbie question about WinAPI... 20 Feb 1998 13:58:06 -0800 Message-ID: <34ED9B5B.517.cygnus.gnu-win32@switch.rockwell.com> References: <34EC6757.D33E09E3@enea.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: Björn Svartengren Cc: GNU-Win32 list If you can't get a book, and you want api calls, you can check out Jan-Jaap's web page for an old win32 help file from M$ which contains an early win32 api set of documentation which may have some errors, but will be a start. Check out win32 sources, there are a few around the net. Petzold's examples are out there from win3.1 gcc -c csource.c ->csource.o windres res.rc res.o ->file.o gcc -o projname csource.o file.o -luser32 -lgdi32 -Wl,--subsystem,windows Björn Svartengren wrote: > > Hello all! > > Let me just say this straight out... I'm a total newbie to C++ and > WinAPI... > Therefor I whould like to use normal C which I know how to handle :) > Is there anyway of creating windows and using the WinAPI with C? > If so does anyone have a simple example of how to create a window? > > In other cases please point me to a good newbie guide for WinAPI > programing :) > > Btw, I just installed Mingw32 and all the extras and tried some basic > programs and it seems to work fine.. > > Cheers, > Björn Svartengren > > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". -- Bartlee A. Anderson System Test (Interfaces-Tools-Automation-ISDN) Rockwell International Electronic Commerce Division 300 Bauman Ct. banders@ecd.rockwell.com MS 933-605 Opinions my own, not Rockwell's VOICE (630) 227-8975 Wood Dale, IL 60191 FAX (630) 227-9771 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".