* how-programming.texinfo: Add "How do I load cygwin1.dll dynamically from a

Visual Studio or MinGW application?"
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2005-06-03 Max Kaehn <slothman@electric-cloud.com>
* how-programming.texinfo: Add "How do I load cygwin1.dll dynamically
from a Visual Studio or MinGW application?"
2005-05-28 Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com>
* how-using.texinfo : Update the mkdir -p section to reflect

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Thanks to Alastair Growcott (alastair dot growcott at bakbone dot co
dot uk) for this tip.
@subsection How do I load @samp{cygwin1.dll} dynamically from a Visual Studio or MinGW application?
Read @code{how-cygtls-works.txt} and the sample code in
@code{winsup/testsuite/cygload} if you want to understand how this works.
The short version is:
@enumerate
@item Make sure you have 4K of scratch space at the bottom of your stack.
@item Invoke @code{cygwin_dll_init()}:
@example
HMODULE h = LoadLibrary("cygwin1.dll");
void (*init)() = GetProcAddress(h, "cygwin_dll_init");
init();
@end example
@end enumerate
@subsection How do I link against a @samp{.lib} file?
If your @samp{.lib} file is a normal static or import library with