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From: "Steven Woody" <narkewoody AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin and windows API
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On 8/10/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> Lewis Hyatt wrote:
> > Steven Woody wrote:
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> can i directly call Windows APIs ( such as creating a window, reading
> >> from a file ) from a cygwin program written in C ?  if the answer is
> >> yes, i want to know how i should do that, thanks!
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Just #include <windows.h> and write whatever windows program you want,
> > it will compile fine with gcc. If your question is how to write windows
> > programs, this list isn't likely to help you out but there is tons of
> > info on the web, you can start here: http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/
>
>
> The only caution I'd add is that you don't want to mix the usage of
> services from both Windows and Cygwin.  For example, you shouldn't
> just expect things like sockets created with in the Windows API to work
> with Cygwin calls and vice versa.  Also, if your goal is to write a
> pure Windows program, you either want to use the '-mno-cygwin' flag
> when you build with Cygwin's gcc or use Mingw's.  Either will make
> sure you don't rely on Cygwin's runtime, which you don't need for a
> pure Windows program.
>
>
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thanks for your info.

-- 
woody

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