I'm having another go at building Pike on the windows platform. This time, I'm using msys plus rntcl to run the microsoft command line compiler. It's actually working out pretty well; I have all of the modules compiling, and there are only one or two minor problems there.

I'm into the main pike code now, and I've run into two problems:

1. the definition of do_pike_exit in main.h causes problems because the its declspec is different from that defined in pike_embed.h (from what I can tell. I temporarily commented the definition in main.h out so that I could continue with compilation.

2. fdlib doesn't compile because of the following error:

C:\msys\1.0\home\e10401\pike-7.7.21\src\fdlib.c(918) : error C2440: 'type cast' : cannot convert from 'PIKE_OFF_T' to 'LARGE_INTEGER' C:\msys\1.0\home\e10401\pike-7.7.21\src\fdlib.c(918) : error C2440: 'function' : cannot convert from 'LARGE_INTEGER *' to 'LARGE_INTEGER' C:\msys\1.0\home\e10401\pike-7.7.21\src\fdlib.c(918) : warning C4024: 'SetFilePointerEx' : different types for formal and actual parameter 2 C:\msys\1.0\home\e10401\pike-7.7.21\src\fdlib.c(918) : warning C4047: 'function' : 'PLARGE_INTEGER' differs in levels of indirection from 'int' C:\msys\1.0\home\e10401\pike-7.7.21\src\fdlib.c(918) : error C2198: 'SetFilePointerEx' : too few arguments for call through pointer-to-function CL returned error code 2.

Any thoughts?

Bill