warning: `cygwin_conv_to_win32_path' is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/sys/cygwin.h:50)

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 02/21/2010 09:36 AM, John Berlet wrote:
> My compilation continues to spew out these Warning messages and I am
> not sure if this caused by the fact that the sqlite libraries are
> trying to call what I believe is a
> deprecated function (cygwin_conv_to_win32_path). I am running cygwin
> 1.7.1 and up until this point I did not have issues building from
> source php 5.2.9 in cygwin. I am getting these warning messages when I
> try to build php 5.3.1 as well. As far as I can tell this sqlite
> method call to cygwin_conv_to_win32_path has not changed and I suspect
> that if I went back and tried to rebuild php 5.2.9 with my current
> Cygwin environment I would get these warning messages too.
>
> Question - is this really an issue that would prevent me building
> current or subsequent versions of php?
> Question - Is there a potential workaround to this other than
> downgrading my Cygwin install?

You should switch-over any use of cygwin_to_win32_path() to
cygwin_conv_path().  This new API is documented in the API
documentation along with other Cygwin-specific APIs.  Take a
look:

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html>

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