From: p DOT dalgaard AT biostat DOT ku DOT dk (Peter Dalgaard BSA) Subject: Re: win32 popen clone for mingw32 anyone? 1 Aug 1998 05:19:07 -0700 Message-ID: References: <9807311933 DOT AA20575 AT modi DOT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu> To: Mumit Khan Cc: Douglas Steele , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Mumit Khan writes: > Perhaps the R folks are using an older version of egcs or mingw32 headers? Mmmno.. that happened with a cross-development egcs1.0.2+your patches + binutils2.9.1 and header files snatched out of the native mingw32 distrib. Here's what happens exactly: [pd AT butterfly gnuwin32]$ export PATH=~/mingw-cross/i386-mingw32/bin:$PATH [pd AT butterfly gnuwin32]$ make windres -i wincons.rc -o res.o windres: /home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/include/stdarg.h:70:parse error cpp: output pipe has been closed make: *** [res.o] Error 1 The compile comes through neatly with Windows32/Defines.h instead of windows.h. I forgot what happened when Douglas tried the same thing with native mingw. Here's what the preprocessor does, with blank lines removed: [pd AT butterfly gnuwin32]$ gcc -E -xc-header -DRC_INVOKED wincons.rc | grep -v '^ *$' # 1 "wincons.rc" # 1 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/windows.h" 1 3 # 1 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/include/limits.h" 1 3 # 1 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/include/syslimits.h" 1 3 # 1 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/limits.h" 1 3 # 7 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/include/syslimits.h" 2 3 # 11 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/include/limits.h" 2 3 # 35 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/windows.h" 2 3 # 1 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/include/stdarg.h" 1 3 typedef void *__gnuc_va_list; void va_end (__gnuc_va_list); # 168 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/include/stdarg.h" 3 typedef __gnuc_va_list va_list; # 36 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/windows.h" 2 3 # 1 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Base.h" 1 3 # 277 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Base.h" 3 # 325 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Base.h" 3 # 409 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Base.h" 3 # 545 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Base.h" 3 # 617 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Base.h" 3 # 39 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/windows.h" 2 3 # 1 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Messages.h" 1 3 # 292 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Messages.h" 3 # 408 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Messages.h" 3 # 759 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Messages.h" 3 # 866 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Messages.h" 3 # 42 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/windows.h" 2 3 # 1 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Defines.h" 1 3 # 3603 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Defines.h" 3 # 4357 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Defines.h" 3 # 5148 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Defines.h" 3 # 45 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/windows.h" 2 3 # 1 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Structures.h" 1 3 # 4678 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Structures.h" 3 # 48 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/windows.h" 2 3 # 1 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Functions.h" 1 3 # 1 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/CommonFunctions.h" 1 3 # 6867 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/CommonFunctions.h" 3 # 34 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Functions.h" 2 3 # 1 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/UnicodeFunctions.h" 1 3 # 3004 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/UnicodeFunctions.h" 3 # 37 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Functions.h" 2 3 # 1 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/ASCIIFunctions.h" 1 3 # 2984 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/ASCIIFunctions.h" 3 # 41 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Functions.h" 2 3 # 451 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Functions.h" 3 # 51 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/windows.h" 2 3 # 1 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/Windows32/Errors.h" 1 3 # 54 "/home/pd/mingw-cross/lib/gcc-lib/i386-mingw32/egcs-2.90.27/../../../../i386-mingw32/include/windows.h" 2 3 # 22 "wincons.rc" 2 ... and then the real stuff. so stdarg.h is the only place where it goes wrong. I think I know what to do now, thanks. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p DOT dalgaard AT biostat DOT ku DOT dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".