Re: Running an editor from ANSI C

On 08/06/2024 06:40, James Kuyper wrote:

I've been programming on Unix-like operating systems for more than 30
years, and most of that time was on Linux systems, but even I'm not
foolish enough to make such a claim for Linux. The last few years before
I retired I worked on Windows systems doing maintenance on huge code
bases that were required to work on both Windows and Linux systems. They
didn't do so by being written to use only POSIX functionality, and rely
upon POSIX-compatible wrappers on to work on Windows systems. They
relied upon non-POSIX functions that did different things on POSIX and
Windows systems. The code was built quite differently on the two
operating systems - CMake was involved. I don't know a lot of the
details of how all of that worked, my assigned tasks kept me far away
from that part of the code - but I was aware of the complications that
it caused for building the software.

And that is exactly what Baby X is trying to get away from. I've isolated the Posix dependent functions into single function files. Currently there a "readirectory_posix.c" file. If someone could write the corresponding "readdirectory_win.c" for Windows, I can switch eveything from Posix to Windows. I hope.
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