Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3C3C3C4C.4080105@syntrex.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:49:16 +0100 From: Pavel Tsekov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011126 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jean le Roux CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: w32api header problems References: <20020109115348 DOT A14411 AT infosat DOT net> <67136319166 DOT 20020109130747 AT logos-m DOT ru> <20020109133833 DOT A20443 AT infosat DOT net> <3C3C2C12 DOT 7090102 AT syntrex DOT com> <20020109142543 DOT C20549 AT infosat DOT net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jean le Roux wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:40:02PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > >>Jean le Roux wrote: >> >> >>>On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:07:47PM +0300, egor duda wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Hi! >>>> >>>>Wednesday, 09 January, 2002 Jean le Roux jean AT infosat DOT net wrote: >>>> >>>>JlR> I need to include /usr/include/w32api/winbase.h in order to use the >>>>JlR> GetVolumeInformation(...) system call under windows. >>>> >>>>JlR> However, as i metioned in an earlier mail, DWORD seems to not be >>>>JlR> defined. I tracked DWORD's definition down to windef.h.. but it seems >>>>JlR> the whole include chain is a bit funny.. there are lots of >>>>JlR> inter-dependencies which are not satisfied. >>>> >>>>JlR> Does anyone have any words of wisdom to make life a little easier, or >>>>JlR> do I simply have to test for, and include, all the headers in w32api ? >>>> >>>>you ought to >>>> >>>>#include >>>> >>>I've done this but seems to leave my code in a tangle :) >>>I suddenly have parse errors in my own header files, on normal >>>function declerations. I can only deduce that windows.h is leaving an >>>open ifdef or has unterminated strings or something silly. >>> >>>Anybody encounter this before? Any suggestions ? >>>I can put the compiler output online if someone wants to take a look, >>>and ofcourse some code snippets. >>> >> >>It would be helpful :) >> > > Here it is: first the relevant snip from my header file (common.h), and then the > compilers pain. > > [common.h] > ... > //this is where i include the header that make life hard :) > > #ifdef HAVE_WINDOWS_H > #include > #endif > > ... > > //this is where the errors occur. > /*other*/ > int max(const int value_a, const int value_b); //line 283 > int min(const int value_a, const int value_b); //line 284 To fix the min and max, define the following before including windows.h: #define NOMINMAX > string itoa(const int value, const short fix=0); //line 285 > Have you included ? > ... > > [compiler output] > cd . \ > && CONFIG_FILES= CONFIG_HEADERS=config.h \ > /bin/sh ./config.status > creating config.h > config.h is unchanged > make all-recursive > make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/e/projects/multicast/pmfp' > Making all in libsrc > make[2]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/e/projects/multicast/pmfp/libsrc' > /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -g -O2 -c common.cc > rm -f .libs/common.lo > c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -g -O2 -Wp,-MD,.deps/common.pp -c common.cc -DPIC -o .libs/common.lo > In file included from common.cc:5: > common.h:284: parse error before `const' > common.h:285: parse error before `const' > common.cc:524: parse error before `const' > common.cc:529: parse error before `const' > make[2]: *** [common.lo] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/e/projects/multicast/pmfp/libsrc' > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/e/projects/multicast/pmfp' > make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/