CoderRC/libmingw32_extended

A library for mingw32 that includes some POSIX functions but eventually all of the POSIX functions will be completed and right now the POSIX functions that are included in this repository are pipe, wait, mmap, munmap, msync, mlock, munlock, posix_madvise, madvise, shm_open, shm_unlink, readv, writev, process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev, dlopen, etc

libmingw32_extended

A library for mingw32 that includes POSIX functions.

Build

1. Clone Source

git clone https://github.com/CoderRC/libmingw32_extended.git
cd libmingw32_extended

2. Build

mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make

Install

make install

Requirements

Download a bash command line environment to run configure.

Download git to use the git command for cloning the source.

Download gcc to compile the source and configure it.

Download make to compile the library.

If the bash command line environment supports the pacman command do

pacman -S git
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
pacman -S make

Contributing to the source

To properly add new sources to the repository, the sources must be added to the source directory in the repository and in the configure file add paths to the SOURCES.

To properly add new include directories to the repository, the include directories must be added to the include directory in the repository and in the configure file add include paths to the INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.

To properly add new headers to the repository, the headers must be added to the include directory in the repository and in the configure file add paths to the INCLUDE_FILES.

Functions Completed and Can Be Used In Your Projects:

pipe, wait, mmap, munmap, msync, mlock, munlock, posix_madvise, madvise, shm_open, shm_unlink, readv, writev, process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev, dlopen, dlclose, dlsym, dlerror, dladdr