Re: problems with COM running native win32 applications through cygwin's bash

2013-03-18 Thread Andy Koppe
On 18 March 2013 06:26, Edward Peschko wrote: >>> All, > >>> We are having difficulties running various windows utilities through >>> bash. Through a regular windows cmd, one can run commands like >>> diskshadow without issue, but with bash, we are having problems with >>> COM calls not working. We

Re: problems with COM running native win32 applications through cygwin's bash

2013-03-17 Thread marco atzeri
On 3/18/2013 7:26 AM, Edward Peschko wrote: to get a native 64 bit environment, which allows the COM calls to happen for diskshadow. I'm assuming that there isn't a 64 bit cygwin port? I would think that would solve lots of issues - the number of native 32 bit installations is dropping rapidly,

Re: problems with COM running native win32 applications through cygwin's bash

2013-03-17 Thread Edward Peschko
>> All, >> We are having difficulties running various windows utilities through >> bash. Through a regular windows cmd, one can run commands like >> diskshadow without issue, but with bash, we are having problems with >> COM calls not working. We have posted an example below. > I'd recommend repo

Re: problems with COM running native win32 applications through cygwin's bash

2013-03-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/15/2013 12:07 AM, Edward Peschko wrote: All, We are having difficulties running various windows utilities through bash. Through a regular windows cmd, one can run commands like diskshadow without issue, but with bash, we are having problems with COM calls not working. We have posted an exam