Question

I’m going crazy trying to get this to work in MinGW 32-bit. It works on all other platforms I’ve tried.

All I want to do is get the size of a > 4GB file into a 64-bit int.

This works fine on other platforms:

#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS   64
#include <sys/stat.h>

int64_t fsize(const char *filename) {
    struct stat st; 

    if (stat(filename, &st) == 0)
        return st.st_size;

    return -1; 
}

I tried adding the following defines before the above code, based on various suggestions I found online:

#define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE   1
#define _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE 1
#define __USE_LARGEFILE64   1

Also tried:

#ifdef __MINGW32__
#define off_t off64_t
#endif

And finally tried adding -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to the gcc flags (should be the same as the above define though…)

No luck. The returned int64_t is still getting truncated to a 32-bit value.

What is the right way to determine a 64-bit file size in MinGW 32-bit?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Thanks guys, good suggestions but I figured it out… MinGW requires this define to enable the struct __stat64 and the function _stat64:

#if __MINGW32__
#define __MSVCRT_VERSION__ 0x0601
#endif

Then this works:

int64_t fsize(const char *filename) {

#if __MINGW32__
    struct __stat64 st; 
    if (_stat64(filename, &st) == 0)
#else
    struct stat st; 
    if (stat(filename, &st) == 0)
#endif

        return st.st_size;

    return -1; 
}

Hope this helps somebody.