On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 02:27:33PM +0000, Vinay wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 09:54:30AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> >On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Vinay wrote:
>> >> I am trying to compile a native linux application in windows using
>> >> cygwin(CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 ).
>> >>
>> >> But I am faced with strange error below
>> >>
>> >> /usr/include/cygwin/stat.h:72:17: error: field 'st_atim' has incomplete
>type
>> >> /usr/include/cygwin/stat.h:73:17: error: field 'st_mtim' has incomplete
>type
>> >> /usr/include/cygwin/stat.h:74:17: error: field 'st_ctim' has incomplete
>type
>> >> /usr/include/cygwin/stat.h:77:17: error: field 'st_birthtim' has
>> >> incomplete
>type
>> >>
>> >> The error is persistant even after including time.h, types.h and stat.h
>> >> I tried various order of include files. None yielded any fruitful result.
>> >>
>> >> It seems the declaraion of the st_atim is not included with some
>conditional
>> >> compile directive, can anyone has any idea on this?
>> >
>> >We have no idea since you didn't give a sample code.
>>
>> Ditto, and we'd also need the gcc command line.
>>
>> cgf
>>
>>
>voila I created a sample file to recreate this issue anyway, error is with
>inclusion of timeb.h, dont know why!!.
>
>below is sample cpp file, which will throw similar error!
>
>#include <sys/timeb.h>
>#include <sys/stat.h>
>#include <stdio.h>
>
>
>struct stat hello;
>
>int main()
>{
> printf("Hello Here!\n");
> return 0;
>}
Looks like a bug in Cygwin's header files. If you put the sys/timeb.h after the
sys/stat.h it should work better.
cgf
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