Re: Pari svn on MSVC

["Jason Moxham" <jason@njkfrudils.plus.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Allombert" <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
To: <pari-dev@list.cr.yp.to>
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: Pari svn on MSVC


> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 04:43:05PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:37:55AM +0100, Jason Moxham wrote:
> > > By the way , pari svn works under MSVC now with and without MPIR/GMP
> > > I'm just going thru the hacks I did.
> > >
> > > In the file
> > > src/gp/gp.c
> > >
> > > there is use of the function
> > > alarm(int)
> > >
> > > This function does not exist for MSVC or MinGW , for the moment I have
> > > just commented it out to get it to compile and run. I imagine there is 
> > > a
> > > suitible substitute for it under windows.
> >
> > At worse, we can disable alamr in Configure, bug I used alarm instead of
> > setitimer/getitimer because alarm is available in UNIX v7...
>
> I attach a patch that check for alamr in Configure and set HAS_ALARM
> accoridingly. I suppose it address your issue since since HAS_ALARM is not
> defined in Odos/paricfg.h. However it would be better to add an 
> alternative
> implementation for MSVC.

Thanks , I'll look in to an alternative , it can certainly be done using 
threads , but there must be an easier way , I'll ask someone who knows...

> Are you running the Configure script ?

Not using the configure script directly for MSVC.

> I really wonder if there are system where Configure is used and alarm
> does not exist. If not, the Configure part of the patch is useless.

MSYS/MinGW32/64  runs the Configure script and does not have alarm , this is 
quite likely to be the only one , ever , unless Microsfot ship a bash shell 
:)


> Cheers,
> Bill.