[Zlib-devel] pigz 2.1.4 available

[Vincent Torri]

Hey,

> Exactly - I am using MS VC compiler which doesn't provide either
> dirent.h, or equivalent implementations. This is more like a compiler
> issue as there might be other compilers on windows which provide these
> set of POSIX directory operations, which might be why gzip is source
> portable under compilers other than MSVC

MinGW has an implementation of these functions.

Vincent Torri

>
> Michael
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Mark Adler <madler at alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
>> On Nov 12, 2008, at 1:06 AM, Michael Han wrote:
>>>
>>> Besides threads, the process() also utilizes many POSIX calls to
>>> iterate directories and files which WINDOWS doesn't support.
>>
>> Are you sure?  It looks like gzip uses those same calls (opendir, readdir,
>> closedir) without modification for Windows.  Are there other functions
>> you're referring to?
>>
>> One of the things I do need to do is include the gzip portability
>> modifications having to do with path component separators (e.g. / vs. \, :,
>> [], ;, etc. for Windows, VMS, others).
>>
>> Mark
>>
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