From: zow AT mdbs DOT com (Zow Terry Brugger) Subject: RE: cygwin32 mingwin32 qnd wxWindows 15 Feb 1998 14:54:47 -0800 Message-ID: <01BD3A19.5A67FE00.zow.cygnus.gnu-win32@mdbs.com> Reply-To: "zow AT mdbs DOT com" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "'cateland AT adersa DOT asso DOT fr'" , "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" -----Original Message----- From: Stephane Cateland I would like to compile wxWindows with mingw32 2.8.0 but it does not compile out of the box. more particurlarly there is problrem with time function (gettimeofday) and some system call Is some one ever tried it or has advice to give me I'm dl'ing the sources right now to look at how gettimeofday is implimented in cygwin32, but whatever they've done, it won't work for someone. gettimeofday has plagued my work for some number of years now on various platforms. It all started when BSD included the function back in the BSDv.2 or 3 days. AT&T decided that it was pretty useful, and they'd need to include it for compatibility in order to allow BSD sources to be ported to Sys V (or probably IV when they did it). Well, the geniouses at Bell labs noticed that the second argument to gettimeofday was unused, so they removed it. To quote the Solaris 2.6 time.h: "hence making a function included for compatibility, incompatible." As a result, there are now two versions of gettimeofday, one with one argument, one with two. If it's giving you problems, then you probably have one too many, or one too few arguments. If this doesn't help your problem at all, mail me, I'll have had a chance to look at the sources by then. thanks You're welcome. ////////////////////////////////////////////////// // // S. Cateland / cateland AT adersa DOT asso DOT fr // // Adersa 10 rue de la croix Martre 91873 Palaiseau cedex // Phone [switchboard] (33) 0 160 135 353 // Fax (33) 0 169 200 563 // ////////////////////////////////////////////////// "Zow" Terry Brugger zow AT acm DOT org zow AT mdbs DOT com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".