[GRASS-dev] r.li.* building errors in MinGW Windows

[Glynn Clements]

Moritz Lennert wrote:

> > it seems that r.li.* hace problems finding a library, except 
> > r.li.daemon. Actually Makefile of r.li.daemon is different;
> > I introduced new procedures compiling gdal; don't if this takes effects, 
> > but I try...
> > I'm re-compiling grass right now.... I'll tell you about consequences...
> 
> Actually, compiling r.li.daemon gives the library:
> 
> liblibr_li.6.3.cvs.dll
> 
> As this fails because some functions (mkfifo, fork, etc) are unknown, 
> all the other r.li modules which depend on this library fail to compile.
> 
> Glynn, do you have any hints of what would be needed to make this compile ?

Unix ;)

The issue with r.li is quite similar to the issue with monitors.

AFAICT, you would need to replace fork()/exec() with CreateProcess(),
mkfifo() with CreateNamedPipe(), open() with ConnectNamedPipe()
(daemon end) or CreateFile() (client end). Some other changes may be
required.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>