Win32/VC.NET Build and <dirent.h>...

[Michael Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>]

I've just finished setting up the 2.0.3 source to build on my 
development machine at work.  Since we use Visual Studio .NET here, I 
decided to work towards building with Visual Studio .NET instead of 
MingW.

The only problem, as a few others have pointed out, is that Windows 
has no POSIX <dirent.h> interface.  Instead, you are expected to use 
FindFirstFile() and friends.

I have written a patch to src/common/util.c to use the Find* functions 
#ifdef WIN32, but I wanted to know what the "official" solution was.  
Obviously there's a working Win32 build (I hear there's actually two, 
one of which at least uses VC.NET).  Are you using a dirent.c 
implementation, or is there a patch that isn't in the official 
tarball?

I've not yet run my newly-built binary to make sure the code actually 
works, but if no one else has patches for this I'll happily submit 
them once I'm sure they work.

--Mike

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