Re: porting Unix programs to windows

[Robert Pendell <shinji+gmane at elite-systems dot org>]

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Wei Le wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I tried to port Unix C programs to Windows VC using
| cygwin. I hope the programs can be compiled and linked
| correctly under VC. However,  it does not require that
| the programs run correctly.
|
| As the first step, I tried the compilation. I added
| sys/cygwin.h to the beginning of the unix C program.
| VC compiler reports errors:
| ... \iquery\iquery.cpp(100) : error C2660: 'printf' :
| function does not take 1 arguments
| ... \iquery\iquery.cpp(111) : error C2660: 'printf' :
| function does not take 1 arguments
| ... \iquery\iquery.cpp(134) : error C2660: 'printf' :
| function does not take 3 arguments
| ... \iquery\iquery.cpp(136) : error C2660: 'memcpy' :
| function does not take 3 arguments
|
| I added a statement "printf();" to the program as a
| test, the compiler does not complain about that
| "printf" that do not have any paramters.
|
| What can I do to fix those compilation errors?
|
| Thanks.
|
| Wei
|

Do not mix Cygwin libraries with Visual C++ libraries.  They are not
compatible together.

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