Re: perl-5.6.1 DB_file support

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:25:20PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:40:21AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> >Well, it is a MS Windows standard.  And if _WIN32 is defined shouldn't I
>> >expect to find a Win32 standard definition such as MAX_PATH and
>> >_MAX_PATH defined?  Even Cygwin itself uses MAX_PATH, E.G.:
>> >/usr/include/sys/cygwin.h.
>> 
>> Cygwin isn't a UNIX application.
>
>Uh, I don't consider Cygwin an application, it is a runtime library used
>to make applications run.

Ok.  Let me rephrase then: "Cygwin isn't a UNIX runtime library used to
make applications run."

>My statement that if _WIN32 is defined, then I should expect that
>standard Win32 definitions also be defined still stands.  MAX_PATH is
>just an example of one of those definitions.

MAX_PATH *is* defined.  It is in /cygnus/i686-pc-cygwin/include/w32api/windef.h.

The code in /usr/include/sys/cygwin.h is only used when WINVER is
defined.  WINVER is also defined in windef.h, although the real intent
is that the sys/cygwin.h include file should be preceded by an '#include
<windows.h>' if you are attempting to use any of the stuff controlled by
the '#ifdef WINVER' conditional.  Besides "MAX_PATH", there are also
other Windows-specific constructs inside this conditional block like
"HANDLE", and "DWORD".

cgf

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