MSVC cannot build stdint.h not found

[Mitko Veta]

I am using the stdint.h that can be found on the following link:
http://msinttypes.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/stdint.h

It compiles nicely with the latest version of Openslide and MSVS 2008.

Regards,

Mitko Veta


On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Jan Harkes <jaharkes at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> On 12/06/2010 02:48 PM, Stefan König wrote:
>> i've got a problem building open slide with MSVC 2008 Professional, I
>> created my solution file with cmake and tried to build it.
>
> Interesting, I didn't know MSVC was not at all C99 compliant. It looks
> like there are several projects that try to provide usable stdint.h and
> inttypes.h headers. These are both BSD licensed, so I guess either of
> these can probably be integrated into the openslide build using an
> autoconf test or somehow into the cmake.
>
>  http://code.google.com/p/msinttypes/
>  http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/pstdint.h
>
>> But I get several errors "stdint.h" not found, i tried to apply a stdint.h
>> file from mingw to path. Then the missing stdint disappeared, but now I get
>> some other errors, mostly in sha*.h.
>
> I don't know what your errors are, but I don't think it is trivial to
> just pull an isolated header out of the mingw build environment, it
> probably depends on various other mingw headers. Then again there may be
> other C99 coding issues in the sha* header and source files that fail
> with MSVC compilers, a fix for one such incompatibility in a prototype
> was just merged into the main github tree earlier today.
>
> Jan
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