* Using helper apps to dossify ported Unix programs
@ 1997-10-24 9:00 Victor Schneider
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From: Victor Schneider @ 1997-10-24 9:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gnu-win32; +Cc: lynx-dev
One logical thing to do with Unix programs like lynx.exe is to forget about all
the DOSPATH macro code in its source distribution, and compile it as a pure
Unix program working under W95/WNT. The way to do this is to edit the lynx.cfg
file so that all the file viewers are called using a dossifying launch program
that converts '/' to '\\' on the command line.
Such a program is attached to this letter. You can observe that this is one of
the few times that it makes much sense to use `WinMain', since the lpCmdLine
parameter allows you to handle variable-length command lines, and the launcher
itself is only about 12KB of executable when compiled from __CYGWIN32__.
Unfortunately, the launcher crashes the cygwin32 dll when used.
One alternative is to keep Cygwin lynx.exe, and compile the launcher under the
Borland compiler. What you do is delete the c++ winmain from the c++ module
that the latest Borland builder foists on you, and replace it with the code
below. That way, the executable is only about 107KB. However, it _doesn't_
crash the b18 cygwin stack when called from cygwin lynx.exe.
Here is the launch program:
#include <windows.h>
#ifdef __CYGWIN32__
#undef WINAPI
#define WINAPI STDCALL
#endif
int
WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE hprev,
LPSTR lpCmd, int nCmd)
{
char *last_slash;
for ( ; ; )
if ((last_slash = strstr(lpCmd, "/")) != (char *)NULL)
last_slash[0] = '\\';
else break;
/* CreateProcess is more modern to use, but what a nuisance. */
return WinExec(lpCmd, nCmd);
}
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