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Re: Building "real" Windows Aps
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- Subject: Re: Building "real" Windows Aps
- From: "The Jetman" <jetman at newsguy dot com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:12:59 -0400
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From: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@home.com>
Subject: Building "real" Windows Aps
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Just off the top of my head, and way outside my own capacity to implement;
but, would it be feasible to create some sort of "wrapper" program that
would provide the WinMain and like entry points to a cygwin ap such as
RXVT? Maybe it would need to be a spec to GCC, but I would think just a
generic WinMain object that would call __main (or whatever the external
name of the ap's entry) and be linked into the executable to make it a
Windows ap.
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You're actually talking about a major re-write. WinMain itself
doesn't do anything that main() does in a cmd-line pgm. It's the internal
message-processing event loops that translate text to GUI APIs. A non-trivial
undertaking.
Actually, what's needed is work on the existing console I/O code.
Terminal emulators can be a bitch to debug, esp when only *certain* apps
don't work w/ it under *certain* conditions. I encountered a minor one
w/ fresh BASH windows, that I've learned to work-around til I (or anyone)
can take a look at the code....Jet
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