Re: [Gptfdisk-general] Compiling gptfdisk on cygwin fails

[Rod S. <rod...@ro...>]

On 07/24/2012 01:21 PM, notstop wrote:
> Trying to compile gdisk only on cygwin:
>
> $ make gdisk
...
> g++ -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D USE_UTF16   -c -o diskio-unix.o
> diskio-unix.cc
> diskio-unix.cc: In member function ‘int DiskIO::OpenForRead()’:
> diskio-unix.cc:48:18: error: aggregate ‘DiskIO::OpenForRead()::stat64
> st’ has incomplete type and cannot be defined
...
> make: *** [diskio-unix.o] Error 1
...
> Any patch to solve it?

I'm afraid not. I don't support compiling gdisk under Cygwin. You're 
likely to have better luck with either MinGW or Microsoft's C++ 
compiler. Both are free and both can produce Windows executables. (I've 
only used MinGW as a cross-compiler under Linux, though; you may need to 
jump through some hoops to get the Windows version to work.)

That said, if you must use Cygwin, be aware that the diskio-unix.cc file 
provides Unix-specific support functions. You might have better luck 
with diskio-windows.cc, even under Cygwin; or you might need to examine 
the various #ifdef and #include statements in diskio-unix.cc to come up 
with an appropriate way to #include something in Cygwin that defines the 
stat64 structure definition. I'm not familiar enough with Cygwin to make 
any specific recommendations.

-- 
Rod Smith
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