Dana Good wrote: > Please excuse me if this is the wrong location for this post - I > looked long and hard before I posted, and would be happy to be > redirected! You'd get better responses on the MinGW list. > I am using C++ in Eclipse with CDT and MinGW on a Windows machine. > I'd prefer not to use VC++. > > I would like to implement a simple alarm callback, a la 'C', where I > set a timer to go off and use a signal catcher to catch the > interrupt/exception/signal/whatever. For this you need to use the Win32 API. See for example CreateWaitableTimer(), SetWaitableTimer(), WaitForSingleObject(), CreateThread/_beginthreadex and so on. See MSDN for details, or the platform SDK. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms681924(VS.85).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686967(VS.85).aspx etc. > My Googles have left me fairly convinced that I can't do this without > including the VC++ libraries - is this true? These are the APIs provided by the operating system; they have nothing to do with Visual C++. The w32api package includes all the import libraries necessary to link against any of these Win32 API dlls. Brian
