Re: [Mingw-users] scandir and mingw

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

Quoting Jim Marshall <jim...@wb...>:

> David Bruce wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It appears that the default mingw environment does not provide 
>> scandir.  What
>> is the preferred way to work around this?  My program currently has its own
>> replacement that gets called in the Windows cross-build by means of
>> some "ifdef WIN32" statements.  From some googling, it seems that GNU's
>> Gnulib is intended to address this category of issues, but it does not seem
>> to include scandir.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions,
> mingw is basically just a way to compile WIN32 apps without using MS
> tools, it does not provide functions which are specific to *nix systems.
> If you wish to compile a program that uses *nix function you should use
> Cygwin which does provide that capability.
>

Or better, to port the program to use the appropriate windows 
functionality. See 
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amicrosoft.com+scandir for example.

Earnie