Re: [Plib-users] my plib build attempt is failing

[Jason E. S. <tam...@ai...>]

Steve Baker writes:
 > Jon Berndt wrote:
 > > 
 > > I am trying to build plib for FlightGear but my build is failing with a
 > > message that mmsystem.h is not found. I have the latest full cygwin
 > > installed, but mmsystem.h is not there, either. Any hints on what I can do?
 > 
 > <sigh>
 > 
 > This has happened before - the problem is that mmsystem.h described
 > critical OS structures and stuff for Windoze - but Microsoft - being
 > such *NICE* people only ship it with their own compilers.
 > 
 > I thought that the Cygwin guys had fixed their release to contain
 > a clone of mmsystem.h - but that's evidently not true or else you
 > wouldn't have a problem.
 > 
 > I have *heard* that one fix is to steal a copy of that file from
 > the 'WINE' project.  WINE is a suite of freeware libraries that
 > allow Windoze programs to run under Linux (and other) OS's.  As
 > such, I've heard that it comes with a copy of mmsystem.h
 > 
 > However, I'm sure there are other people who will tell you other
 > solutions.  I bet that quite a few people illegally copied mmsystem.h
 > from other people who own MSVC.  If so, I DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT!

I haven't used cygwin myself, so I can't vouch for the usefulness of
this but you can find Anders Norlander's LGPL win32 headers and import 
libraries--which do include mmsystem.h--at:

ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/cygwin/gcc-2.95.2/

I found this from Mumit Khan's Gnu win32 page:

http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/

It's a bit dated, but here's some discussion from the cygwin mailing
list about it.

http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/1998-12/msg00674.html

Caveat emptor. :)

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Jason E. Steele
tam...@ai...