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Re: 'char **environ' woes with cygwin

To: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
Subject: Re: 'char **environ' woes with cygwin
From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:31:28 -0400
Newsgroups: cygnus.gdb
Organization: Cygnus Solutions
References: <20000824163339.A9295@cygnus.com> <200008250817.EAA23502@indy.delorie.com>

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Could you please explain more why is this a problem.  I'm afraid I
> don't know enough about the Cygwin DLL to get the idea.

Cygwin has something like one of these:

#define environ (*(__get_environ()))
-or-
extern __declspec(dllimport) char **environ;

DLLs are better at exporting functions than variables (think DXE).

References:
- 'char **environ' woes with cygwin
  - From: Chris Faylor
- Re: 'char **environ' woes with cygwin
  - From: Eli Zaretskii

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