cross platform directory scanning

[Nazgob]

Hello!
I'm looking for cross-platform directory scanning library working with
ansi C. I need to use in in GNU Linux and Windows. I need to do simple
directory and files opertionson both OS, can you recomend me some
solution? Thank you in advance.

Regards,
Nazgob

 

[Emmanuel Delahaye]

Nazgob wrote on 31/07/05 :

I'm looking for cross-platform directory scanning library working with
ansi C.

There are no directories at all in ISO-C. The best you can use are the
POSIX.1 portable functions like readdir(), opendir() etc.

--
Emmanuel
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declare local variables in COBOL, the reply was:
"what is a local variable?"

 

[Alexei A. Frounze]

Nazgob wrote on 31/07/05 :

There are no directories at all in ISO-C. The best you can use are the
POSIX.1 portable functions like readdir(), opendir() etc.

True. Gcc should have those (even DJGPP has). Borland compilers used to have
those POSIX *dir() functions and Watcom too. But Microsoft's VC++ doesn't
have them (at least not in v6.0).

Alex

 

[Netocrat]

True. Gcc should have those (even DJGPP has). Borland compilers used to have
those POSIX *dir() functions and Watcom too. But Microsoft's VC++ doesn't
have them (at least not in v6.0).

<OT>
An OS lecturer at my university used to frequently assert that Windows NT
was POSIX-compliant (I don't recall whether he qualified it with
"mostly"). He was pretty knowledgeable so no doubt there's truth to the
statement, but I've never investigated how much.
</OT>

 

[Alexei A. Frounze]

<OT>
An OS lecturer at my university used to frequently assert that Windows NT
was POSIX-compliant (I don't recall whether he qualified it with
"mostly"). He was pretty knowledgeable so no doubt there's truth to the
statement, but I've never investigated how much.
</OT>

I'd recommend everyone doing portable software look at what the Single Unix
Specification has (includes ANSI C and POSIX functions and others) and use
those. If they're not available on the target system, I believe, quite a bit
of them can be constructed out of what is there. Anyways, some compatibility
layer is due.

Alex