I did not ask for native widows programming advice any more than cygwin uses win32-api. cygwin distributes the header files and I simply asked about linking, which is exactly what cygwin built programs do.
I appreciate Corinna's providing a url to a possible point of source and which did response to my question about how we can get through, hopefully using cygwin as a gateway. I also, explicity stated that I did not want to have to use bios or direct windows unless there as no cygwin gateway API, but there must be else the c output and getchar functions would never work. cygwin should offer the ability for build programs can perform simple i.e., if you would give a cygwin specific method of outputing a character that doesn't involve c libs that would be fine and was also my main question and is related to cygwin. The c library used by all programs goes there a cygwin interface to output and input date, I just want to know how I can use that interface directly. Regards Corinna Vinschen > On Apr 4 17:05, > > > > It is a cygwin related question to me. It involves using cygwin and > > programs built using cygwin. You are wrong to suggest that it doesn't > > related to cygwin. Additionally it involves using cygwin as a > > learning and buiding tool. You should consider a more constructive > > response that would be helpful and address the question if you have > > the knowledge to do so. > > I don't usually interfere in this, but I have to defend Chris here > because I think your reply is a bit unfair. > > A question is not automatically Cygwin-related because you're using > Cygwin tools to solve the problem. You're looking for native Windows > programming advice. This is not what this mailing list is for. There > are other mailing lists dedicated to this. > In the same vain you could ask for the solution of a mathematical > problem like finding the 300th digit of pi. It's not a Cygwin question > just because you're using a Cygwin compiler and the cygwin list is > not the right forum to share code to compute pi. > > So we ask politely to redirect your question to a forum, which is > dedicated to this kind of problem. > > As for constructive help, did you contemplate to look up the Win32 > API calls at the root? > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee663300%28v=vs.85%29.aspx > > > Corinna > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple