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Asked: 2026-06-14T19:27:44+00:00

Take this simple program #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <errno.h> int main (void) {

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Take this simple program

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>

int
main (void)
{
  printf ("ERROR %d %s\n", ETIMEDOUT, strerror (ETIMEDOUT));
  return 0;
}

If you compile it with Cygwin gcc it runs fine

$ gcc a.c

$ ./a
ERROR 116 Connection timed out

If you compile it with MinGW-w64 gcc it does not give proper error message

$ i686-w64-mingw32-gcc a.c

$ ./a
ERROR 138 Unknown error

How can I get MinGW-w64 to put correct error message?

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  1. Editorial Team

    ETIMEDOUT seems to be a POSIX extension to the ISO C standard errno.h. Cygwin has better support for POSIX than MinGW. A bug report about ETIMEDOUT for mingw32 was opened and closed in 2007.

    One option is to use the GNU Portability Library (Gnulib). It provides a POSIX-like errno.h and strerror()/strerror_override() .

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