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

[Norman V. <nh...@ca...>]

Jason E. Steele writes:
>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 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/

These work fine
as do Anders' original ones found at
http://www.acc.umu.se/~anorland/gnu-win32/

Mummit has taken over maintaining these, and his files
form a more complete Win32 system.

These are not part of the Cygnus B20 distribution and require
an additional installation step to get a more complete Win32
cygwin system.

They are included in cygwin snapshots since 1999/03/09
for announcement see
http://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=cygwin-developers/1999/03/09/18
:36:46

Norman