[Mingw-users] [mingw - Unix2Windows2Unix] RE: Time, fork and signals?

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By: dessent

I think you're very confused about what mingw is.  Mingw gives you direct access
to the win32 API and the Microsoft C library (MSVCRT), and very little else.
These unix concepts like signals and fork do not exist in windows, so there
are just no functions to call.  You can't expect to just compile posix code
under mingw if it depends on these concepts, it will never work.

You have two options: Rewrite your code to not use those unix functions (and
map the concepts onto the win32 API) or use a toolchain that provides unix/posix
emulation (i.e. Cygwin.)


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