Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <03AD0BE3A983D311A26400508B6BFB10039B5C60@XCGCA043> From: "Lee, Robert C." <RLee AT northropgrumman DOT com> To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> Subject: fork/exec help Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:08:48 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello, I'm trying to compile a simple fork/exec program in vc6 using cygwin but I can't get past the vc compiler complaining about an include file: main.cpp c:\cygwin\usr\include\sys\_types.h(13) : error C2632: 'long' followed by 'long' is illegal c:\cygwin\usr\include\sys\_types.h(13) : error C2144: syntax error : missing ';' before type 'long' c:\cygwin\usr\include\sys\_types.h(13) : error C2501: '__extension__' : missing storage-class or type specifiers c:\cygwin\usr\include\sys\_types.h(13) : fatal error C1004: unexpected end of file found Error executing cl.exe. Here's the code: #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <iostream.h> int main (int argc, char** argv) { cout <<"forking...."<<endl; pid_t pid = fork(); ...... } The only thing I did in VC was add the include path to the cygwin include files. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Robert Lee -- 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/