Hi, Iam installing a C applicati

[yasin007]

Hi,

Iam installing a C application . While compiling the c files its give "Cannot open include file: 'strings.h': No such file or directory"

I have found that the error comes from the following declaration.

# ifdef HAVE_STRINGS_H
# include <strings.h>
# endif /* HAVE_STRINGS_H */

Can any one of you tell me , what is this cause of the problem . How to avoid this.

And what is the meaning of definition HAVE_TM_GMTOFF ?

Iam using Visualc++, 6.0 in windows environment .

Thanks,
Regards,
Yasin

 

[Salem]

strings.h is a non-standard file. The standard one is called string.h

So whatever you have done trying to build this code should have left HAVE_STRINGS_H as undefined, then the conditional compilation guard would have done its job and prevented you from including a file which doesn't exist.

> And what is the meaning of definition HAVE_TM_GMTOFF ?
All those HAVE_xxx macros are set by the configure script, the output of which is usually a file called config.h

They're meant to determine what your system is actually capable of and what it provides, so that the compiled code doesn't depend on features which are missing.

My guess is you've used the predefined config.h which is incorrect for use with vc++. You need to figure out how to run configure, or look to see if there is a config.h.vc file somewhere (which you should use to replace the existing config.h).




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[yasin007]

Useful Information Salem .

Thanks .

Regards,
Yasin.