[MACTCL] Problems with stat on Mac

[Steve C. <ste...@mq...>]

The only thing stopping my application compiling now is a problem with stat in one file:

    // find out the number of records in the file by stat'ing it and
    // subtracting the size of the header
    struct stat statbuff;
    
    if( Tcl_Stat( filename, &statbuff ) != 0 ) {
      free( In->File_Data );
      SSFF_Close( In );
      return 0;
    }
    track->file_num_rec = (statbuff.st_size In->Data_Seek_Pos)/In->One_Rec_Size;
    track->file_end_time = track->file_start_time + track->file_num_rec*track->rate;

Note that originally this was a call to stat() but I replaced it with Tcl_Stat for the mac.
I've been through various troubles with stat eventually finding out that you can't include 
<fcntl.h> anywhere as it gives a duplicate definition of stat.

When compiling this I get:

Error   : illegal use of incomplete struct/union/class 'struct stat'
trackdata_ssff.cpp line 84   stat *statbuff = new stat;
Project: emu.¼, Target: Emu Shared Lib, Source File: trackdata_ssff.cpp

Error   : illegal use of incomplete struct/union/class 'struct stat'
trackdata_ssff.cpp line 91   track->file_num_rec = (statbuff->st_size 
- In->Data_Seek_Pos)/In->One_Rec_Size;
Project: emu.¼, Target: Emu Shared Lib, Source File: trackdata_ssff.cpp

I've no idea what this means or how to get rid of it.  My next step is to try to use stat
in a small program but I wondered if anyone else had any insight that might help.

Steve