From: David F. <dfe...@mi...> - 2001-02-14 22:38:21
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How is MinGW for WinCE coming? :-) I could use it right now. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tor Lillqvist" <tm...@ik...> To: <rei...@eu...> Cc: <min...@li...> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 5:19 PM Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] fork( )? > rei...@eu... writes: > > On Mon, 23 Mar 2037, Jim Roy wrote: > > You use a MinGW cross compiler. In MinGW only Windows system functions are > > available. > > More correctly, Windows system functions *and* functions in the > Microsoft C runtime library (msvcrt.dll) are available. This C runtime > library does provide workalikes for a lot of POSIX functions, like > open(), read(), write(), and pipe(). No fork(), though. Also, the > pipe() in msvcrt.dll takes a couple of extra parameters: a buffer > size, and a flag that can be O_BINARY or O_TEXT. Another difference is > that the header files declaring these functions are different that on > POSIX, you want to include headers like <io.h> or <direct.h>. > > HTH, > --tml > > > _______________________________________________ > MinGW-users mailing list > Min...@li... > > You may change your MinGW Account Options at: > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-users |