Re: [Mingw-users] Need localtime_s

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting John Brown <joh...@ho...>:

>
> Well, I stopped at localtime_s. Again, I quote:
> "For Windows, we now require Visual Studios 2005, with the Windows SDK and
> Direct X."
>
> w32api does not contain the entire Windows SDK, and as for DirectX, I see a
> number of DirectX-related libraries in /mingw/lib without 
> corresponding header
> files in /mingw/include. I doubt that gcc can use the Windows or DirectX SDKs
> without modification. Localtime_s may not be the only function 
> specific to VC++
> 2005, and replacing even 1 function might not be trivial (like replacing Unix
> fork() on Windows). In short, it could be a lot of work.
>

Options:
1) Port it to use already available mingw API
2) Add API to mingw
3) Use the free available but not free distributable SDK from Microsoft 
and its headers. [1]
4) Use the MSYS runtime to do the build
5) Use the Cygwin runtime to do the build

[1] If you do this, use a modified build environment so that uname -s 
identifies the build system as *-*-windowssdk [2].  Of course you need 
to setup a duplicate environment for bin/gcc, etc and putting the 
headers and libraries in the appropriate places.

[2] MSYSTEM=WINDOWSSDK start /msys

Earnie