Visual c++ doesn't have sys/wait.h

Question

I have downloaded the timezone database library and am trying to compile it under windows to a DLL. When I do this, I get messages like:

1>c:\javatools\tzinfo\src\private.h(97): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'sys/wait.h': No such file or directory

and, of course, sys/wait.h is not ANSI C, which is the issue. I seem to recall windows have some near file names to this. Can I get an assist here?

Thanks.

What library? How do you compile it? Does it support MSVC at all? If it does most likely you don't build it well. In any case sys/wait.h is POSIX header... Don't expect it to be present on Windows. — Artyom
No idea. included in an include and none of it my code. I poked around and didn't see anything. — Thom
Maybe remove the include of those headers and see what the code is attempting to call? — wkl

Blagovest Buyukliev Blagovest Buyukliev · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-20T19:35:28

fork(), wait() and waitpid() are defined by the POSIX standard, and Windows is not POSIX-compliant.

In order to have POSIX compliance under Windows, you should compile under Cygwin.

The analogous WinAPI functions are CreateProcess and GetProcessExitCode.