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Re: [PATCH] getloadavg: Allow building on Windows without Cygwin


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: [PATCH] getloadavg: Allow building on Windows without Cygwin
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 18:14:53 -0400

On Sun, 2018-06-17 at 22:31 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > I thought in general we were avoiding use of the _WINxx
> > preprocessor defines, and instead preferring WINDOWS32.
> 
> Maybe in general in GNU. But not in gnulib.
> 
> > > But there is no implementation for native Windows!
> > 
> > True, but it does compile, run, and return a non-error code.  The
> > values are all 0 however.  From getloadavg.c:
> > 
> >    # if !defined (LDAV_DONE) && (defined (__MSDOS__) || defined (WINDOWS32))
> 
> This relies on the symbol WINDOWS32, which is not defined by gnulib.

No, but it is defined by GNU make's version of config.h on Windows :).
And getloadavg.c includes config.h.



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