Re: [NSE patch] patch for pack/unpack to use platform independant types

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:37:45AM +0100, jah wrote:
> On 26/08/2008 20:11, David Fifield wrote:
> > I've tested this on GNU/Linux and Solaris, but not on Windows.
> Hello,
>
> I'm getting the following whilst trying to build r9908 on win32:
> Compiling...
> utils.cc
> traceroute.cc
> ..\libdnet-stripped\include\dnet/os.h(26) : error C2371: 'ssize_t' :
> redefinition; different basic types
>         u:\dev\nmap\proj\r9908\nbase\nbase_winunix.h(140) : see
> declaration of 'ssize_t'
> timing.cc
> tcpip.cc
> ..\libdnet-stripped\include\dnet/os.h(26) : error C2371: 'ssize_t' :
> redefinition; different basic types
>         u:\dev\nmap\proj\r9908\nbase\nbase_winunix.h(140) : see
> declaration of 'ssize_t'
> <snip: more of the same>
> nmap - 18 error(s), 0 warning(s)
>
> Seems to be related to the change of type for ssize_t in
> \libdnet-stripped\include\dnet\os.h at r9837.  I get no errors when
> changing ssize_t to the same type (long) in nbase\nbase_winunix.h.

I think you're right. However libdnet appears to be the only part of the
course tree that uses ssize_t, and it typedefs its own. Does it work to
just delete the typedef of ssize_t from nbase_winunix.h?

David Fifield

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