Philippe Gambron wrote: > I know that Windows offers an API (Video for Windows) that allows to do > roughly the same thing.
VFW is old and deprecated, it's cruft from the 16 bit Windows 3.x days. DirectShow is the modern replacement. > But is it possible to use this API (or another that allows to do the same > thing) with g++ under cygwin? In other words, do we have to buy Visual Net > Studio or is it possible to do such a thing under windows using only free > components? You can use the full Win32 API with gcc; this is what the w32api package provides. But do note that for the purposes of a Cygwin program (as opposed to a Mingw one) you should do things in a Posix way whenever possible -- this means using open() instead of CreateFile(), fork()/exec() or spawn() instead of CreateProcess(), pthreads instead of CreateThread(), and so on.If you want to write a pure windows app and do everything in the Win32 API way then you should use Mingw. Brian -- 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/
