Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW and Java RMI

[David F. <da...@sj...>]

Lee W wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently discovered Mingw and so far I've been quite impressed, it 
> has certainly helped me get back interested in programming on Windows.
>
> Currently I'm just starting a project to enable any OS (eventually, 
> but starting with Linux) to monitor the NT Event logs, currently the 
> only way to do this seems to be to use Microsoft's own API, hence my 
> interest in Mingw. I figured the best way to do with would be with 
> some kind of open and adaptable method, so I looked into XML-RPC.
>
> All the major Linux programming languages seem to have this support 
> (PHP, Python, C/C++) but documentation on the Windows side in C/C++ 
> seems a little thin.  So I thought I could do this one of two ways.
>
> Try to combine MingW with one of the XML-RPC libraries available 
> (either XMLRPC-C or XMLRPC-EPI).  Has anyone had any luck with this 
> and can offer any pointers?
>
> Secondly, use Java & RMI to allow a mostly cross-platform program but 
> with the Windows Specific bits in C.  This I have already tried by it 
> seems I'm lacking the required sys/ipc.h, sys/shm.h and sys/mman.h for 
> the RMI header file.  Any ideas where I could get these?
>
> I would appreciate any assistance or advice someone can offer.
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> Lee

Not really answering your question, but I think you may find that
Python's pywin32 extensions give you nice access to the NT Event logs
which you could then combine with the XML-RPC support

Cheers
David