Re: msys/mingw warnings about string length and putenv absence with gcc -Wall -ansi

[Roumen Petrov]

> > > If I compile my project on MSYS/MinGW with gcc -Wall -ansi (plus other
> > > warning stuff that shouldn't matter here) I get two unexpected
> > > warnings. Problem 1 is string lengths that are too long, problem 2 is
> > > a missing putenv declaration.  Based on a previous bug report, it
> > > seems the string lengths
[SNIP]

> Problem #1 was fixed here:
[SNIP]
> Problem #2 was fixed -- for CYGWIN -- here:
[SNIP]

> It isn't difficult to extend this fix for the MINGW case, as well --
> something like the following (around line 2840 in ltmain.m4sh):
>
>  #ifdef _MSC_VER
>  # include <direct.h>
>  # include <process.h>
>  # include <io.h>
>  # define setmode _setmode
> +# ifdef __STRICT_ANSI__
> +int putenv (char *);
> +# endif
>  #else
[SNIP]
It is GCC(mingw) not MSVC compiler, i.e. __MINGW32__ vs _MSC_VER.


Roumen

P.S. Usually compile with -ansi for mingw host fail. There is some bugs 
in headers (as example inline instead __inline - I think fixed in 
repository).