Re: conflicting gettimeofday with MinGW

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 06:17:19PM +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD wrote:
>   
>>>> That page is ages out of date. The intended sync is 
>>>>         
>>> apparently broken.
>>>       
>>>> The current download area is on sourceforge
>>>> http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> *sigh*
>>>
>>> And what is in 3.12, which is apparently the current version?
>>>       
>> Sorry that was implied. sys/time.h did not change between 3.10 and 3.12.
>> There is no #define to remove the declaration.
>>
>> In cvs the file is marked as dead and gives a reference to cygwin's
>> w32api.
>> Maybe the answer is to simply note that the mingw-runtime binary from
>> sourceforge above 3.9 has a broken sys/time.h (it is not the file from
>> cygwin but the dead one from cvs). 
>>     
>
> I think that soudns reasonable. Something for the mingw FAQ. Care to
> provide bruce with a patch?
>
>   

No, that means that we can't build with currently released Mingw, AIUI. 
I think the solution is probably to rename our replacement gettimeofday 
and add a #define to translate the calls. That's pretty much what we've 
done in other cases, and has seemed to be a more robust strategy than 
supplying replacements for standard library routines with routines of 
the same name.

cheers

andrew