Re: [Mingw-users] glibc searching and sorting

[Laia M. <man...@gm...>]

Thank you all for your answers. Here is a summary of my thoughts:

1) Yes, what I was after was the binary tree search and management
functions (tsearch, tfind, tdestroy, and so on). Under glibc, these
are defined in the header search.h. To make things a little more
confusing, it turns out that MinGW already has a search.h, but it does
not contain the same stuff as the glibc one.

2) When it comes to what should be the appropriate course of action, I
really have no clue. As a Linux person that needs to maintain some
ports of my Linux programs for Windows, what I am most concerned is
consistency between libraries (having a straighforward port of the
search part of glibc would be nice) and function names (and here I am
not very concerned about adherence to standards). I realize, though,
that these are MY needs, which may not be consistent with the needs of
most other people.

3) I have found a solution to MY problem. It turns out that Cygwin
does have a port of the binary tree search functions, which is totally
consistent with glibc. Using Cygwin, thus, I can just take my code and
compile it for Windows without a change :)

I hope this thread will be useful for other people in the future, and
I will definitely keep an eye for further developments in MinGW.

Laia