[postgis-devel] Compile issues on MingW trunk

[Paul Ramsey]

Hm. Could we do it with an autoconf test and conditional compilation?
Is how mapserver does it, for example... Would be nice to use the
built-ins where available.

P

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> Obe, Regina wrote:
>
>> Mark,
>> On closer inspection I see that asprintf and so forth are supposed to be
>> defined in stdio.h.
>>
>> My stdio.h under MingW doesn't have these functions and in fact looks
>> very different from this one and doesn't even have a copyright notice
>>
>> http://linux.die.net/include/stdio.h
>>
>> My msys doesn't seem to have stdio.h aside from sources I've downloaded
>> which do have these functions.
>>
>> So maybe my base libraries need to be upgraded.
>>
>> Can you let me know if you have luck compiling this under MingW?  If you
>> do, then I'll assume its just something wrong with my install which
>> wouldn't be all that surprising since I don't know what I'm doing :).
>>
>> I'm pretty sure I was able to compile trunk under MingW until we started
>> introducing these new fangled things.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Regina
>
> I see it. The MS C runtime doesn't contain vasprintf() or asprintf() which
> is why we include our own versions in liblwgeom. According to
> http://svn.refractions.net/postgis/trunk/liblwgeom/vsprintf.c, adding a lw_
> prefix to both should solve this for you.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Mark.
>
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