Re: fork/exec help

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:08:48PM -0800, Lee, Robert C. wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to compile a simple fork/exec program in vc6 using cygwin but I
>can't get past the vc compiler complaining about an include file:
>
>main.cpp
>c:\cygwin\usr\include\sys\_types.h(13) : error C2632: 'long' followed by
>'long' is illegal
>c:\cygwin\usr\include\sys\_types.h(13) : error C2144: syntax error : missing
>';' before type 'long'
>c:\cygwin\usr\include\sys\_types.h(13) : error C2501: '__extension__' :
>missing storage-class or type specifiers
>c:\cygwin\usr\include\sys\_types.h(13) : fatal error C1004: unexpected end
>of file found
>Error executing cl.exe.
>
>Here's the code:
>
>#include <sys/types.h>
>#include <unistd.h>
>#include <iostream.h>
>
>int main (int argc, char** argv)
>{
>
>	cout <<"forking...."<<endl;
>	pid_t pid = fork();
>	 ......
>}
>
>The only thing I did in VC was add the include path to the cygwin include
>files.  Any help would be appreciated.

It's probably not the help you want but "You can't do that".  The header
files available for cygwin are meant to be used with gcc.  You can't
use them with MSVC.  Sorry.

cgf

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