[geos-devel] Re: gettimeofday for win32

[strk at refractions.net]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:22:27AM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

(...)

> I don't see any VisualStudio directory in the 2.1.0 distribution.   Is
> it only available in CVS?  I don't really want a project/workspace
> file anyways, though I suppose if it worked smoothly enough it
> would do. 

I confirm it's not included in the distribution.
Paul, should it ?

(...)
>  o The definition of int64 in platform.h lacks a win32 case. 
>  o The use of the long long static uid in various items in geom.h caused
>     a problem.   I just hacked out the UIDs as they don't seem to have any
>     purpose. 

That is mainly Martin's way of versioning classes.
Anyway a 64-bit int type is needed for the DoubleBits class, better
to handle win32 case in platform.h.

>  o The base class toVector() returns a const result while the overrides return
>     non-const. I had to change the base to non-const as well, though I am
>     not clear what the original intent was. 

We should probably have two methods:
        const vector<Coordinate>* toVector() const;
        vector<Coordinate>* toVector();

--strk;

>  o Some problems with time stuff for the profiler.  It was your mention of
>     this that made me think you were building on win32 as well. 
> 
> I haven't gone back to try things on VC6 but if I do, i will
> keep the stlport thing in mind.  I do my FWTools builds with
> VC6, so if I am to GEOS enable that distribution I will need to
> solve VC6 builds. 
> 
> Best regards,
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