Re: temporary files in wine

[Ben Pfaff]

"John McCabe-Dansted" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2/12/07, Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > Mingw is basically meant to be bug for bug compatible with windows. I
>> > should probably try linking against mingwex library before you spend
>> > to much more time on this... the mingwex library is meant to add some
>> > C99 like functionality to mingw.
>>
>> It's a good thought but it doesn't look like mingwex has an
>> implementation of tmpfile.  At least I don't see one.
>
> I guess the next idea is for me to ask on mingw-users. We can't be the
> only people who want something smaller than cygwin, but with at least
> the option to use sane versions of libraries.

OK.

I really think that we can use the gnulib version of mkstemp, but
surely someone else has encountered this and can perhaps provide
guidance.

Another option would be to add a gnulib module for tmpfile that
replaces it with a non-broken one.

> BTW, I probably would have used cygwin if the native ports of GTK were
> only really designed to be used with mingw, and if I hadn't also
> bumped into some cygwin related problems.

I'm actually delighted to find that there's a way that I can
compile for and debug a Windows version of PSPP without actually
needing a Windows machine around.  For one thing, it's always
good to have another target to test against--the more systems
your program works on, the more likely it is that it'll work
without change on even more.
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