Keith MARSHALL <keith.marshall@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm curious as to why you would expect MinGW's `sys/stat.h' to > define these? Because that's the case on every other platform I port to. Didn't mean to sound critical of mingw, which I love. > MinGW specifically targets the *native* Win32 platform. These are > *UNIX* specific filesystem attributes; they are *not* supported in > native Win32. OK. > By defining them, you fool the compiler into believing that the OS > supports features that it doesn't. MinGW *deliberately* omits these > defines, so you get a compile time error when you try to do something > which the OS doesn't support. By sidestepping this, you leave your > application vulnerable to unexpected behaviour, or even failure at > runtime; defining them is *not* a good idea. > > What you should be doing is recognising that these don't apply on > the host OS, and coding so that you don't use them. When compiling > for a host such as Win32, use something like `#ifdef _WIN32', (or, > for a MinGW specific test, `#ifdef __MINGW32__'), to identify these > special cases, and provide alternative code which doesn't use > these unsupported attributes. I'm just trying to avoid platform-specific lines of code in my C files. Thanks, Ed -- Ed Hartnett -- ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
