Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:37:37 -0500 (Central Daylight Time) From: "David A. Rogers" To: Dave Korn Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: cygwin 1.5.11: execv doesn't set argv[0] on Windows programs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-Warning: UNAuthenticated Sender MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > There is no concept of argv in the windows OS itself. The application gets the > entire commmand line as one unparsed string. > Actually, this is not true. Even in a true win32 app, argc and argv are available, they are just not as obvious. The following program will print the location of the exe. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #include "stdafx.h" #include "stdlib.h" // for __argc and __argv #include "stdio.h" // for sprintf int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) { char msg[300]; sprintf(msg, "%d args. Arg0 is %s", __argc, __argv[0]); MessageBox(NULL, msg, "argv test", MB_OK); return 0; } --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/