Re: <dirent> functions under MinGW

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> > Which means that unsuspecting programs built under MSYS
> > (e.g. libltdl) may end up being GPLed by accident when it was
> > assumed that only GPL-free MINGW headers/libraries were used.
>
> That is then a very wrong assumption. To build *for* MSYS, I assume
> you have downloaded the MSYS sources and use the headers from there?
> There certainy is no dirent.h in the MSYS package that people who just
> *use* MSYS install.
>
> The dirent.h provided with mingw, on the other hand, is the
> public-domain one, and the dirent implementation that programs built
> using mingw (and MSYS) use is the public-domain one. (Unless you have
> seriously mixed up things yourself and copied stuff here and there.)

My MSYS/MINGW install has both /usr/include/dirent.h and 
/mingw/include/dirent.h.  The problem header is /usr/include/dirent.h. 
Looking at the generated dependency files for my libltdl build, I see 
that /mingw/include/dirent.h is being used.

I was drawn into this issue due to a compilation error message (for a 
different software package) which seemed to indicate that 
/usr/include/dirent.h was being used.

Bob
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