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[boldorider4]

Hey man,

first kudos on creating such a project. It is even referenced in some ubuntu official WSL guide.

But sorry to say, this repo is anything but well taken care of:

• The project file you're referencing in your README.md is missing entirely and your tutorial about how to export the dll library is very poorly explained.
• People that are interested in such a project are Linux guys who are forced to work with Windows and they more often than not don't know how dlltool or lib work. Granted, google helps, but what you're trying to do is very unclear.
• Please add a requirements section, explaining how the toolchain should be configured to use such Makefiles. So far I understood you expect us to use Cygwin, but those makefiles still don't build properly with a properly chosen toolchain.

[Biswa96]

This repository is not focused to "actual coding", I started this as a guide only (Markdown files). Each C files are a small program so I don't think it need any project file. But I can add a shell script or batch file to automate things. What do you think?

btw, dlltool is available in any mingw-w64 cross-compiler toolchain.

[boldorider4]

yeah I learned what dlltool is afterwards.
The problem is that I don't know how to link that wslapi library (should I link a .dll? or the .a file? what is wslapi.def for?) to the C files to generate an .exe. So yes, a batch file or project file to automate the process would help greatly.

Also, you're mentioning mingw-w64 cross-compiler NOW, but so far I've been using gcc/make from CygWin, which I believe, although I'm not sure, is not part of mingw-w64. When I build the main C files I get this:

make

gcc -O2 -Wall -Werror -Wextra -Wundef -o GetDistroConfig GetDistroConfig.c -L"../lib" -lwslapi
GetDistroConfig.c: In function ‘main’:
GetDistroConfig.c:22:28: error: format ‘%lu’ expects argument of type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘ULONG {aka unsigned int}’ [-Werror=format=]
printf("Version: %lu\n"
~~^
%u
GetDistroConfig.c:22:16: error: format ‘%lu’ expects argument of type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 3 has type ‘ULONG {aka unsigned int}’ [-Werror=format=]
printf("Version: %lu\n"
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
GetDistroConfig.c:23:31: note: format string is defined here
"DefaultUID: %lu\n"
~~^
%u
GetDistroConfig.c:22:16: error: format ‘%lu’ expects argument of type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 6 has type ‘ULONG {aka unsigned int}’ [-Werror=format=]
printf("Version: %lu\n"
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
GetDistroConfig.c:26:56: note: format string is defined here
"Default Environment Variables Count: %lu\n",
~~^
%u
GetDistroConfig.c:30:30: error: format ‘%lX’ expects argument of type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘HRESULT {aka int}’ [-Werror=format=]
printf("Error: 0x%08lX\n", result);
~~~~^
%08X
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make: *** [Makefile:14: GetDistroConfig] Error 1

[rescenic]

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