Porting OS/2 EMX __findfirst / __findnext

Tim Prince tprince@computer.org
Tue Apr 11 07:30:00 GMT 2000


autoconf doesn't need porting; it installs "out of the box."

----- Original Message -----
From: "peter karlsson" <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 6:37 AM
Subject: Porting OS/2 EMX __findfirst / __findnext


> Hi!
>
> I have a program that is originally written for EMX, and it uses
> findfirst/findnext to read diretories. When I ported it to Linux, I used
> opendir/readdir, but since that requires extra overhead (with filtering
out
> the files I actually want), I want to use findfirst/findnext also under
> CygWin.
>
> I found prototypes for _findfirst and _findnext in mingw32/dir.h, but it
> doesn't compile with those, even when I try to include -lmingw32 to the
gcc
> command line. It *did* compile with -lcrtdll, but then the program crashes
> with an unhandled exception on startup.
>
> The program in question is a console-mode application.
>
>
> I am using a configure script to try to figure out what is available or
not,
> has anyone ported autconf to work with Cygwin?
>
>
> Also, is there any documentation that is downloadable (as opposed to the
> several-HTML-document things on the Cygnus website)?
>
>
> Please reply with a Cc to my address, since I have not decided whether to
> start to subscribe to this mailinglist yet...
>
> Thanks in advance!
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> peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
>
>
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