Re: Portability fixes for win32 cross compiling

[Andy Wingo]

On Wed 09 Jun 2010 00:12, No Itisnt <address@hidden> writes:

>>> This one is wrong: the file uses mmap(3), which is declared in
>>> <sys/mman.h> according to
>>> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/mmap.html>.
>>>
>>> This function is missing on MinGW, though, but there’s currently no
>>> replacement in Guile.  Would you like to work on it?
>>
>> Sorry, I don't think I'm able to do that.
>
> Try <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366556(VS.85).aspx> for
> Windows' mmap equivalent. You could also just write a generic
> fread/malloc equivalent, since the mmap is only for speed (I think).

It would be ideal if there were an mmap gnulib module, so we can
preserve the performance characteristics of mmap.

Andy
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