Visual c++ doesn't have sys/wait.h

Question

I have downloaded the timezone database library and am trying to compile it under windows to a DLL. When I do this, I get messages like:

1>c:\javatools\tzinfo\src\private.h(97): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'sys/wait.h': No such file or directory

and, of course, sys/wait.h is not ANSI C, which is the issue. I seem to recall windows have some near file names to this. Can I get an assist here?

Thanks.

Answer 1

fork(), wait() and waitpid() are defined by the POSIX standard, and Windows is not POSIX-compliant.

In order to have POSIX compliance under Windows, you should compile under Cygwin.

The analogous WinAPI functions are CreateProcess and GetProcessExitCode.

Answer 2

If you're looking for the wait() equivalent of MSVS, look no further than WaitForSingleObject().