Question

I am trying to use cywin to get some linux code building on a win32 machine.

I get the following VS.net 2003 error in ym compiler:

‘c:\cygwin\usr\include\sys_types.h(15): error C2144: syntax error : ‘__int64’ should be preceded by ‘;’ ‘

and

c:\cygwin\usr\include\sys_types.h(15): error C2501: ‘extension‘ : missing storage-class or type specifiers

The code line is

__extension__ typedef long long _off64_t; 

Obviously I am missing something here but I have never used cygwin before and this is killing me.

I want to be able to at least compile my CPP files on my win32 machine for a few reasons.

(this is just the first two errors of hundreds it looks like)

thanks, tim

EDIT:

the simple workaround I have chosen as the answer – though I do understand that is not as complete or as desirable as using gcc to compile… This is a quick and dirty compilation so that I can use my familiar tools before trying to integrate with linux machines. (oh the joys of cross-platform development)

I’ve voted up each of those answers so far and appreciate the help)

Answer 1

I think that the extension macro may not be defined. You may want to do a text search on your cygwin header dir to see if this is the case. If so, make sure that you header search path is defined correctly, etc.