Re: [Mingw-users] Help - where is the C language sleep() function?

[Charles S. <cws...@tr...>]

On Sat, 19 May 2007 00:50:39 +0800
Kuang-Chun Cheng <kc...@gm...> wrote:

> MinGW is not designed to provide POSIX API on Win32.  It implements
> native Win32 API (but there are some exceptions in libmingwex.a).
> Check
> 
>     i686-pc-mingw32-nm lib/libmingwex.a  | grep ' T '
> 
> You have couple choose:
> 1) use Sleep()
> 2) use Cygwin instead of MinGW
> 3) if you have glib2, use g_usleep().  GNOME/glib2 provide some
>     level of portability between Linux and Win32 which I used as part
>    of my development tools.
> 
> Regards
> KC

Thanks KC.  I'll check that out.  For the present I'm executing the
sleep.exe program which is part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit
Tools, available for free from the MS website.  But it'd be nice not
to require that.

Regards,
Charles Sullivan

> 
> On 5/19/07, Charles Sullivan <cws...@tr...> wrote:
> >
> > I'm a newbie to MinGW, looking to compile a free-standing version of my
> > FOSS Linux C language program for Windows XP users.
> >
> > My program builds and runs correctly so long as I omit a sleep()
> > function (which is critical to other parts of the program).
> >
> > Here's a test program:
> > ---------------
> > /* sleeptest.c */
> > #include <unistd.h>
> > int main ( void )
> > {
> >   sleep(5);
> >   return 0;
> > }
> > ---------------
> >
> > Running:
> >   gcc -Wall sleeptest.c -o sleeptest
> > yields the error message:
> > sleeptest.c: In function `main':
> > sleeptest.c:5: warning: implicit declaration of function `sleep'
> > C:\DOCUME~1\winuser\LOCALS~1\Temp/cceccaaa.o<.text+0x32>:sleeptest.cundefined reference to `sleep'
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >
> > I have downloaded and un-TAR'd the following MinGW binary packages into
> > directory c:\mingw
> >   gcc-core-3.4.2-20040916-1.tar.gz
> >   mingw-runtime-3.9.tar.gz
> >   mingw-utils-0.3.tar.gz
> >   w32api-3.6.tar.gz
> >   binutils-2.15.91-20040904-1.tar.gz
> >
> > What else do I need to install to get the sleep() function?
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Charles Sullivan
> >
> >
> >
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