[flint-devel] FLINT on MinGW

[Sam R. <sam...@gm...>]

Hi All,

I'm not sure if there is a lot of test or support for FLINT on Windows. The
documentation does mention various ways to compile on Windows, so maybe its
marginally supported.

In any case, I compiled the libraries successfully using MinGW (MSYS 1.0.14,
GCC 4.4.1, GMP 5.0.1). However, `make check' fails because profiler.h
#include's <sys/resource.h>. I know that there has been little to no plans
to include this POSIX library in MinGW, so it looked like there might not be
support for running `make check' on Windows.

However, on a hunch I simply commented out #include <sys/resource.h>, and
tried `make check' again. Ta da! "All tests passed."

Is this just an overzealous #include or is resource.h really used elsewhere?

-- 
Sam Rawlins