Re: [Mingw-users] Re: random/srandom

[Kai R. <kai...@lu...>]

Christian Koch wrote:
> 
> Lonnie Waugh wrote:
> 
> > Is there any way to get these functions (random/srandom)
> > over to the mingw32 GCC? it currently works perfectly well
> > under  linux and cygwin .. but I do not like having to
> > include that cygwin1.dll file each time I put out this
> > ported version..
> 
> You may try linking against libiberty.a

 Looking more this issue, I found the protos for these functions
missing from (at least my) 'stdlib.h', the Mingw-version. And no
'libiberty.h' (coming e.g. in 'gcc-2.95.2/include') was present.
And no evidences about any fixing of the libiberty, at least in
the 'libiberty.h', for Mingw was seen...

 So, is the libiberty-package ever checked for Mingw ? Do the
'missing' functions work under Mingw ?  I haven't needed these
functions straight, but the 'libiberty.a' will be used for every
GCC, binutils, GDB etc., built for Mingw-host, so I would expect
it work, never any problems... But I wouldn't expect the random
and srandom being used in them, and many other uncommon functions
neither...

Cheers, Kai