Re: Compilation error in readline/input.c using MinGW

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/29/24 8:07 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In this message several months ago:
>
>    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2024-07/msg00006.html
>
> I reported a problem compiling Readline 8.2 with MinGW, due to the
> lack of the 'alarm' function.  I have now built the GDB-16.0.90
> pretest, which includes Readline 8.2 with the solution suggested by
> Tom Tromey, see
>
>    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2024-11/msg00007.html
>
> However, that solution doesn't work with mingw.org's MinGW (it doesn't
> support __USE_MINGW_ALARM), so I still need a trivial implementation
> for 'alarm' to compile input.c. 

Readline-8.3-beta provides that stub implementation of alarm(3).


> you say that "I have reports that alarm() doesn't work on mingw at
> all, so the current version doesn't try to support timeouts on mingw".

The current version solves this by providing a stub version of alarm(3)
that does nothing, so you can use the functions but they don't have any
effect.

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