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Posted Nov 20, 2008 8:04 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)
In reply to: select by ncm
Parent article: MinGW and why Linux users should care

"MinGW" neither has nor doesn't have select().

The Fedora MinGW project is a cross-compiler that creates Windows executables. If you want
select-like ability, you could use some Win32 API for that such as - as nix says -
WaitForMultipleObjects.

But you could also (and we'd recommend) use some portability library like glib or NSPR which deals
with the matter in another way and has already been ported to whatever Win32 APIs exist (on
Windows) or whatever Linux/POSIX APIs exist on Linux/Unix.

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Posted Nov 20, 2008 12:23 UTC (Thu) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link] (4 responses)

...or QtCore if the license (GPL or commercial) is ok for you.

Doesn't Boost also have some file/threading classes in the meantime ?
Also signals..

Alex

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Posted Nov 20, 2008 13:46 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link] (3 responses)

I packaged boost. Boost is a classic example of an upstream package where they've gone off and written their own build system, so they have to maintain all the complexity of building on every system out there, and I had to add to that complexity for cross-compiling. I also did another C++ network environment called POCO, and they also wrote their own build system, completely different from the boost one obviously.

C++ programmers, eh - haven't they suffered enough already?

While we're on the subject of portability libraries, APR (Apache Portable Runtime) is another contender.

Rich.

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Posted Nov 20, 2008 22:50 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

Cross-compiling and Boost.Jam? You have a stronger soul than I. Just
changing CFLAGS and the preferred installation prefix was hell, and then I
had to figure out why jam coredumped as soon as it started... Autoconf
may be nasty but it's a lot kinder to packagers/builders than bloody jam.
While KDE was searching for a new build system for KDE4 I was in terror
that they'd choose Boost.Jam because it was used for a successful C++
project. Thankfully they are not utterly insane and chose something nicer
(now with added lowercase! ;)))) )

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Posted Nov 21, 2008 8:50 UTC (Fri) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link] (1 responses)

Initial support for building Boost using CMake has been committed to the
Boost repository a few weeks ago.

Alex

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Posted Nov 22, 2008 12:34 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

That's the best news I've had all week :)