WinToastLibC

WinToastLibC is a C bindings for WinToast library. With this bindings you can use the modern toast notifications of Windows 8 & Windows 10 in projects written in C or compiled with non-MSVC compilers.

Documentation

Since this project is just bindings, documentation can be found in WinToast project.

Examples

• example1.c: minimal C code to show the toast notification
• example2.c: more complex example with image and basic AUMID registration

MinGW integration

Build as is

gcc example1.c wintoastlibc.lib -lole32 -mwindows

Build with fake implib

mv wintoastlibc.lib libwintoastlibc.dll.a
gcc example1.c -L. -lwintoastlibc -lole32 -mwindows

Build with true implib

gendef wintoastlibc.dll
dlltool.exe -d wintoastlibc.def -D wintoastlibc.dll -l libwintoastlibc.dll.a
gcc example1.c -L. -lwintoastlibc -lole32 -mwindows

Build with delayed loader (dll)

Loader source: wintoastlibc_lazy.c

gcc -shared -o wintoastlibc_lazy.dll \
    -Wl,--out-implib=libwintoastlibc.dll.a \
    -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--enable-auto-import \
    -Wl,--whole-archive wintoastlibc_lazy.c -Wl,--no-whole-archive
gcc example1.c -L. -lwintoastlibc -lole32 -mwindows

Build with delayed loader (static)

Loader source: wintoastlibc_lazy.c

gcc -DWTLC_BUILD_STATIC -o wintoastlibc_lazy.o -c wintoastlibc_lazy.c
ar rcs libwintoastlibc.dll.a wintoastlibc_lazy.o
gcc example1.c -DWTLC_BUILD_STATIC -L. -lwintoastlibc -lole32 -mwindows

Links

• https://github.com/mohabouje/WinToast