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["Johannes Ring" <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, June 20, 2008 Anders Logg wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:42:26PM +0200, Anders Logg wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:51:12PM +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I have some trouble compiling DOLFIN in Windows. When running scons I
>> get
>> > the following error message:
>> >
>> > g++-sjlj -o dolfin\common\utils.o -c -Wall -pipe -ansi -DDEBUG -g
>> -Werror
>> > -DNDEBUG -O2 -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"0.7.3\" -I. -IC:\local\include
>> > -IC:\boost_1_35_0 -IC:\local\include\libxml dolfin\common\utils.cpp
>> > dolfin\common\utils.cpp: In function 'void
>> dolfin::delay(dolfin::real)':
>> > dolfin\common\utils.cpp:60: error: aggregate 'timespec req' has
>> incomplete
>> > type
>> > and cannot be defined
>> > dolfin\common\utils.cpp:64: error: 'nanosleep' was not declared in
>> this scope
>> > scons: *** [dolfin\common\utils.o] Error 1
>> > scons: building terminated because of errors.
>> >
>> > After some googling, it seems that nanosleep is not available in
>> Windows,
>> > however, one can use the Windows function Sleep instead (as suggested
>> > here: http://rabbit.eng.miami.edu/info/functions/dos.html). I have
>> created
>> > a patch (attached), but someone with more knowledge on the subject
>> should
>> > probably look it over.
>> >
>> > Johannes
>>
>> It's not necessary for us to use nanosleep(). Do you know if there is
>> any other cross-platform function we could use for timing?
>
> Sorry, we don't use nanosleep() for timing. We've used it before to
> set delays (for debugging).
>
>> Anyway, I'll apply the patch.
>
> When I looked more closely, I found that utils.h was not used anywhere
> in the code so I removed it instead.

Okay, good!

Johannes