Posix support in mingw..

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 06:38:07PM +0900, roy basavaraju wrote:
>   I am developing a linux based tool on mingw environment.  this tool
> requires posix apis, which mingw doesnt support. i can not use cygwin due to
> some limitations.

It depends which POSIX APIs your application is using.  We provide a
tool 'mingw32-crossreport' that you can use, which analyzes the APIs
used by a Linux application and offers suggestions on what you can do
to either substitute or emulate them.  Read the mingw32-crossreport
manual page for more information, or run it on your app.

MinGW is NOT Cygwin - it is not a POSIX emulation service for Windows.
Therefore you have to use some sort of replacement library, or (in a
few cases) recode your application to use Win32 calls instead of POSIX
calls.

Some portabilities libraries you can consider:

 - gnulib
 - glib
 - NSPR
 - APR
 - Qt
 - POCO & Boost (for C++)

Rich.

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