Re: conflicting gettimeofday with MinGW

Zeugswetter Andreas DCP SD <zeugswettera@spardat.at>

From: "Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>
To: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2007-04-11T15:43:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
That page is ages out of date.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

Andreas 

> > mingw-runtime-3.10 introduced a gettimeofday declaration in 
> sys/time.h 
> > that is not compatible with port.h.
> > (current is mingw-runtime-3.12)
> >
> > int __cdecl gettimeofday(struct timeval *__restrict__,
> > 			 void *__restrict__  /*	tzp (unused) */);
> >
> > The problem was already reported by Marc Lepage on June 26, 2006 
> > shortly after the mingw-runtime release, (He reported back 
> that it was 
> > a MinGW installation issue. But it is a version issue.).
> >
> > Now, we could probably make a case that MinGW needs to use "struct 
> > timezone" instead of void, but that change alone still does 
> not make 
> > pg compile, because of the "#define TIMEZONE_GLOBAL timezone"
> > in port.h.
> >
> > Any opinions on how to proceed ?
> >
> >
> >   
> 
> I don't see 3.10 on the download page at 
> http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml