-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Fry, Chuck (GE Trans) on 11/8/2005 7:25 AM: > I'm new to Cygwin, and I'm trying to port some applications that run under > HPUX 10.20. > When recompiling under Cygwin one of the applications won't link because the > linker > can't resolve getdirentries which is a HPUX function. HP is obsolescing this > function > and recommends that you rewrite this function using opendir and readdir > functions.
That is because opendir and readdir are specified by POSIX. > > My question is does Cygwin support these functions and if so what library > are they > located in. They don't show up in the man pages, but the do show up in the > man pages > on a pc running RedHat Linux. The cygwin man pages are known to be incomplete. The only portable way to know for sure if a function is provided on a given platform is the method that autoconf uses - try compiling an actual program that uses the function and see if you get a link error (in this case, you won't, because cygwin provides these two functions). Less portably, you can download the source code, and inspect winsup/cygwin/cygwin.din to see all functions that are available in the standard link libraries (ie. you don't even need a -l option to gcc). Or grep the headers in /usr/include to see if it is defined. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDcLgK84KuGfSFAYARArlWAJ0T4xyykOhO6jUHh45QdxyZDKRFEQCfVpj2 SST1dgU+gtiZ+CnmMo4cBA4= =lN42 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
