RE: building device drivers

2005-08-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Jason Pyeron > Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 12:00 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: building device drivers > > On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > > > I don't think that's really going to work. Cygwin cannot be linked

Re: building device drivers

2005-08-19 Thread Jason Pyeron
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: I don't think that's really going to work. Cygwin cannot be linked statically and even if it could, it was not designed to run in kernel space at all. Cygwin does not try to emulate the linux kernel, just a POSIX api. So low level things like device

Re: building device drivers

2005-08-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Jason Pyeron wrote: > I am building a windows device driver (libraw1394), now I want to do it > using cygwin (port of Linux device driver). I assume I will need to > statically link to cygwin libs. > > I am assuming the windows device drivers cannot have DLL dependencies. > > So can things be li

building device drivers

2005-08-19 Thread Jason Pyeron
I am building a windows device driver (libraw1394), now I want to do it using cygwin (port of Linux device driver). I assume I will need to statically link to cygwin libs. I am assuming the windows device drivers cannot have DLL dependencies. So can things be linked statically? If so an exa