[Mingw-users] Re: Directory Parsing

[Benjamin R. <Ben...@ep...>]

Hi Tor,

>  Benjamin Riefenstahl writes:
>   > opendir()/readdir()/closedir() is the standard POSIX (Unix) API.
>   > This is also emulated by the C runtime library on Windows (in
>   > all compilers that I know).

Tor Lillqvist writes
>  No, it isn"t. The Microsoft C runtime or compiler doesn"t provide
>  this API. Mingw has it in its "mingwex" library. [...]

Ah, you are right.  Sorry about the my misinformation here.  That
shows how long I haven't used VC ;-)

It should by a nearly trivial project to implement the POSIX API on
top of FindFirstFile(), though, so maybe that is still a usefull
direction to pursue.

benny