Re: [Dev-C++] MingWin or Cygwin

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

#ifdef __MINGW32__
...
#elif __CYGWIN32__
...
#else
...
#endif

/Per W

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Maya wrote:

> I am developing a program that gets compiled under two platformes, Linux
> and Windows. In MSW I use Dev-Cpp, which in turn uses MingWin, a minimal
> GCC, but in Linux I use GCC; which is the complete version of GCC. Now
> my problems is that there are certain C functions that are incompatible
> with the two versions of the GCC package, one of them is 'mkdir'. In
> MingWin the declaration is ' int mkdir(const char*)' but in UNIX it is
> 'int mkdir(const char* , int). What can I do to let know the compiler
> that if it is MingWin it should use one incarnation of the function and
> visa versa?
> Example:
> #ifdef MINGWIN
>  ... use mkdir("file.dat")
> #endif
> #ifdef CYWIN
>  ... use mkdir("file.data", 0);
> #endif
> #ifdef __GCC__
> ...etc., etc.
> #endif
>
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