Re: Java and Cygwin: a difficult relation

2006-01-26 Thread Lapo Luchini
Lapo Luchini wrote: > The other problem is that from JNI you can't simply call a cygwin DLL, > as it wouldn't load his cygwin1.dll dependency correctly and surely dump. > As Dave Korn suggested, we could have used cygload to actualyl load it "the usual way" as JNI, but we discovered cygload only

RE: Java and Cygwin: a difficult relation

2006-01-26 Thread Dave Korn
On 26 January 2006 14:35, Lapo Luchini wrote: > The problem is now, of course, to do it all on Windows. > gamin seems to compile and work, on cygwin, with a few patches; this > seemed to be the hard part, but in fact reveals to be the easier one. > The other problem is that from JNI you can't si

Java and Cygwin: a difficult relation

2006-01-26 Thread Lapo Luchini
In the company I and Alessandro (in cc) work for there is a Java application that uses gamin in order to receive file alteration events. Main development platform is FreeBSD and, as gamin has no pure-Java client available, we used a smallish JNI wrapper around the libgamin client; it works flawless