Rupert, Actually, what I am running is MS Services for Unix 3 -- is that Interix 2.2 or 3? Documentation is sketchy there. I tried to build gcc3.3, and ran into a whole other nest of snakes that will have to be unraveled later. Oh, and I also installed Cygwin, because, as you said, it is well supported. Unfortunately, after spending the last few months churning thru the Cshell, I couldn't find a shell in Cygwin that I knew how to use. I wish I had time to experiment more! Anyway, thanks for your suggestions. I will try that flag out right away. Cheers! --- Rupert Wood <me@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > L Holcombe wrote: > > > I am having some perplexing problems using gcc on > my system. > > Currently running Interix 2.2 subsystem over > WinXP. > > Oh you don't want to do that. Interix 3 is *so* much > nicer. > > The problem with Interix 2.2 is that it's a very > minimal POSIX > implementation. That's useful as an academic tool to > test portability but > you end up banging your head against it when try to > build most common > packages. Even GNU make doesn't work out of the box > - it assumes the > main(argc,argv,envp) extension that Interix 2.2 > doesn't provide. > > > According to 'gcc --version' I have: > cygnus-2.7.2-970404 > > That's very old. You're unlikely to get GCC past > 2.8.x to build on Interix > 2.2 without a lot of work. (More recent - 3.2+ - > GCCs will build on Interix > 3 with a trivial fix.) But I don't think that > version's the problem: > > > It seems like it is trying to compile the xdr.h > file (Sun RPC), and > > i understand that it is not actually supposed to > do this! > > I'm not sure what you mean - that Interix 2.2 > doesn't support Sun RPC (which > wouldn't surprise me except that *is* an Interix > system header) or that your > source isn't supposed to include xdr.h? > > In any case, a good aid to porting to Interix is > '-D_ALL_SOURCE'. This > includes extra defines that they omitted by default > (c.f. > WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN I suppose) and will many > problems with portable sources. > It looks to me like your problem is a missing > typedef and _ALL_SOURCE might > just catch that. > > Good luck, > Rup. > > P.S. I'm a fan of Interix in general, but if I don't > mention this then > someone else will: another solution might be to drop > Interix 2.2 in favour > of Cygwin. It gets a lot more user exposure with > freely available sources > and there's more user support out there. I like > Interix 3 myself though. >
