Re: [Mingw-users] Unix-like functions

[Oscar F. <of...@wa...>]

Mats Liljegren <ml...@en...> writes:

> I have now installed mingw runtime, w32api and managed to compile and
> store binutils and gcc. However, when compiling using my brand new
> mingw cross compiler (I'm running on Solaris), I realise I need
> something more.
>
> I miss functions like "fork", "tcsetattr/tcgetattr". Apparently, Mingw
> does not offer this. So where can I get it?

MinGW produces native Win32 applications. "fork" doesn't exist on the
Win32 API. If you want to compile that sources, you need to port them
to Win32.

The Cygwin project provides a *nix-like wrapper around Win32. That
easies the porting effort:

http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin.

-- 
Oscar