Re: conflicting gettimeofday with MinGW

Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD wrote:
> mingw-runtime-3.10 introduced a gettimeofday declaration in sys/time.h
> that is not compatible with port.h.
> (current is mingw-runtime-3.12)
>
> int __cdecl gettimeofday(struct timeval *__restrict__,
>              void *__restrict__  /*    tzp (unused) */);
>
> The problem was already reported by Marc Lepage on June 26, 2006 shortly
> after the mingw-runtime release,
> (He reported back that it was a MinGW installation issue. But it is a
> version issue.).
>
> Now, we could probably make a case that MinGW needs to use "struct
> timezone" instead of void,
> but that change alone still does not make pg compile, because of the
> "#define TIMEZONE_GLOBAL timezone"
> in port.h.
>
> Any opinions on how to proceed ?
>
>
>   

I don't see 3.10 on the download page at http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml

The current release is apparently 3.9.

cheers

andrew