On Friday 02 May 2014 14:55:42 John Ralls wrote: > > > then I get the dreaded unrecognized “l” format error, > > > > What is the dreaded unrecognized "l" format error ? I have never > > seen it on my WinXP test system. In which step do you get this ? > It’s that the ancient msvcrt.dll used by MinGW doesn’t know about %lld > for printing or scanning int64s. Back before Microsoft accepted the > c99 standard (around 2006, IIRC) their printf() required using %I64d > instead, and threw a "unknown conversion type character 'l' in format > [-Wformat]” warning. The msvcrt.dll in MinGW is that old. There are a > couple of workarounds, and -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO is one of them.
Ok. Just to clear it up completely for me: when you set that directive mingw does understand %lld ? Would that also work on Windows XP or not ? Hmm, Windows XP is 32-bit only so perhaps when building on WinXP you never see that directive. Is it a problem only for 64-bit ? Perhaps related: business users can define a number format for invoices/bills via File->Properties->Business. I remember there also this problem of %lld vs %I64d is rearing its ugly head. So if we build gnucash with the above directive perhaps this problem would go away as well ? Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
