[rrd-developers] Re: Broken Win32 Build

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Jake Brutlag wrote:

>
> > I have added autoconf tests for dirent, sys/stat.h and sys/types.h
>
> The latter two headers (and associated functionality), sys/stat.h and
> sys/types.h, are available on Win32.
>
> > this helps for portabiliy on unix to an extent, at least the dirent
> struct which also tends to be called
> > direct should now be handled transparently ...
>
> There is a direct.h header on Win32, which might have the functionality
> you are looking for... Here is a list of routines defined in direct.h:
> Routines
> _chdir Change current working directory
> _chdrive Change current drive
> _getcwd Get current working directory for default drive
> _getdcwd Get current working directory for specified drive
> _getdrive Get current (default) drive
> _mkdir Make new directory
> _rmdir Remove directory
>
> But it doesn't have opendir/readdir/dirent structure.
>
> After skimming through rrd_tool.c, it seems the idea is to add some
> utility commands to rrdtool. This can certainly be done on Win32, even
> if Win32 API calls are required. However, I am not certain simply adding
> this functionality will allow rrdtool to run as service/server on Win32.
> Is this functionality useful even if rrdtool is not a service?

nope without this it is not sensible ...

cheers
tobi
>
> Jake
>
> Jake Brutlag
> Network Analyst
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>

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