On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:03:52PM +0000, Lucero, Aldo wrote: >I am trying to port some Fortran/C code from Linux to Windows using >Cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-6.1 elp-w7wks-40 1.7.30(0.272/5/3) 2014-05-23 10:36 >i686 Cygwin) The main program spawns several processes using fork() and >one of those processes will create another process using clone(). I >have read under the FAQ that glibc is not part of Cygwin and that using >fork in Cygwin is not stable.
fork() in Cygwin has to be pretty stable since it is fundamental to a UNIX/Linux system. Cygwin doesn't implement "clone()" however. It is theoretically possible to do so but it wouldn't be trivial. >I have been able to compile my code in Cygwin, but when trying to link >my libraries (static), it cannot find clone function (under C code). >Do you guys have any recommendations as far as whether to continue >trying to get my code to work under Cygwin or should I try to find some >other Windows compiler(s)? I apologize if I am not being clear, but I >am wondering if somebody else has had this issue and if they were able >to resolve it. This isn't a compiler issue. You'd have to find something similar to Cygwin which implemented clone(). Or add the functionality yourself. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple