From: Hendrik S. <ub...@st...> - 2004-10-18 22:47:16
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Am Dienstag, 19. Oktober 2004 00:14 schrieb Aaron W. LaFramboise: > Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > Why aren't those functions available? They are available in linux, *bsd > > and even Solaris and cygwin, but not mingw! > > Neither of these functions are in the C standard. They aren't even in > the base POSIX standard, either; they're classified as XSI extensions. > Despite these functions' usefulness, a portable program, even among UNIX > implementations, should not expect them to exist. > > MinGW aims for conformance to misc. language standards, such as the C > standard ISO 9899, but does not attempt to provide POSIX compliance > (other than a very small set of compatibility functions).=20 Too bad... > In general,=20 > you should not expect a Windows development environment to provide POSIX > (the UNIX standard) interfaces. If you'd like to use POSIX interfaces > under Windows, consider Cygwin, which is an environment specifically > created for this purpose. I'll look into how to make a cross-compiler :-/ Debian already features mingw32 compiler but the above limits are a bit tig= ht=20 to make it usable. HS =2D-=20 Mein GPG-Key ist auf meiner Homepage verf=FCgbar: http://www.hendrik-sattle= r.de oder =FCber pgp.net PingoS - Linux-User helfen Schulen: http://www.pingos.org |