Posix support in mingw..

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 06:38:07PM +0900, roy basavaraju wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   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.
> 
>   Can anyone please suggest me, how to overcome this problem with mingw
> itself.  my application executable must run on any windows PC without
> Cygwin/mingw installation requirement..

If you are not already using a portability layer like GLib / QT / NSPR,
then you should probably consider looking at GNULIB. This provides a
set of modules you drop into your source tree which implement / fix
POSIX APIs on OS where they are incomplete / broken. So it can wrap
alot of Windows APIs to provide the true POSIX API.


Daniel
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