2007/4/9, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Attached is a patch that fixes two similar problems building current CVS
> on Cygwin, SSPI and LDAP. These are both cases where the code wants to
> call something from the Win32 API, but Cygwin targets a POSIX
> environment and WIN32 is not defined.

I would actually split this into two different issues, even though at
a first glance the fix for both is having to call/link Windows native
libraries from a pure Cygwin app.

LDAP - Is it really better to call/link the Windows native LDAP
library from Cygwin instead of using OpenLDAP or The Mozilla LDAP C
SDK ?

SSPI - Is there any replacement for the native Windows native SSPI
library which could be used from POSIX ? Looking for cross platform
interoperability.

Besides Unicode issues I'm not sure that cygwin1.dll can always be
circumvected in a safe way making direct calls to the MS CRT / DLLs.
Are the needed ones blessed by the Cygwin team to use in this manner ?

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