Re: missing gmtime_r & localtime_r in .a files

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

--- Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:12:59PM -0800, Joseph Heled wrote:
> >While I see the prototype for gmtime_r & localtime_r in /usr/include/time.h,
> the
> >linker reports they are not found.
> >
> >I tried 'nm *.a | grep gmtime_r' in /usr/lib, which gave no hits.
> >
> >I am using cygwin version 1.15. gcc version is gcc-2.95.2-5.
> 
> The headers that are used by Cygwin come from 'newlib'.  We don't
> necessarily export every single function from the newlib library in
> cygwin.
> 
> So, if you get a "not found" error when linking then you can believe it.
> It's not available in cygwin.
> 

However, it is possible for the cygwin1.dll to contain the functions but
they're not available from libcygwin.a simply because the
winsup/cygwin/cygwin.din file doesn't contain them. ;)  Both of these exist in
the cygwin1.dll file.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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