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Library Unistd H
In the C and C++ programming languages, unistd.h is the name of the header file that provides access to the POSIX operating system API. It is defined by the POSIX.1 standard, the base of the Single Unix Specification, and should therefore be available in any POSIX-compliant operating system and compiler. For instance, this includes Unix and Unix-like operating systems, such as GNU variants, distributions of Linux and BSD, and macOS, and compilers such as GCC and LLVM.
Unix compatibility layers such as Cygwin and MinGW also provide their own versions of unistd.h. In fact, those systems provide it along with the translation libraries that implement its functions in terms of win32 functions. E.g. In Cygwin, a header file can be found in /usr/include that sub-includes a file of the same name in /usr/include/sys. Not everything is defined in there but some definitions are done by references to the GNU C standard library headers (like stddef.h) which provide the type size_t and many more. Thus, unistd.h is only a generically defined adaptive layer that might be based upon already existing system and compiler specific definitions. This has the general advantage of not having a possibly concurrent set of header file defined, but one that is built upon the same root which, for this reason, will raise much fewer concerns in combined usage cases.
I'm porting a relatively simple console program written for Unix to the Windows platform (Visual C++ 8.0). All the source files include "unistd.h", which doesn't exist. Removing it, I get complaints about misssing prototypes for 'srandom', 'random', and 'getopt'.I know I can replace the random functions, and I'm pretty sure I can find/hack-up a getopt implementation.
But I'm sure others have run into the same challenge. My question is: is there a port of "unistd.h" to Windows At least one containg those functions which do have a native Windows implementation - I don't need pipes or forking.
I know I can create my very own "unistd.h" which contains replacements for the things I need - especially in this case, since it is a limited set. But since it seems like a common problem, I was wondering if someone had done the work already for a bigger subset of the functionality.
I would recommend using mingw/msys as a development environment. Especially if you are porting simple console programs. Msys implements a Unix-like shell on Windows, and mingw is a port of the GNU compiler collection (GCC) and other GNU build tools to the Windows platform. It is an open-source project, and well-suited to the task. I currently use it to build utility programs and console applications for Windows XP, and it most certainly has that unistd.h header you are looking for.
I stumbled on this thread while trying to find a Windows alternative for getpid() (defined in unistd.h). It turns out that including process.h does the trick. Maybe this helps people who find this thread in the future.
Boost, however, has the program_options library... which works okay. It will seem like overkill at first, but it isn't terrible, especially considering it can handle setting program options in configuration files and environment variables in addition to command line options.
In the C programming language , unistd.h is the name of the header file that provides access to the POSIX operating system API. It is defined by the POSIX.1 standard, the base of the Single Unix Specification, and should therefore be available in any conforming (or quasi-conforming) operating system/compiler (all official versions of Unix, including Mac OS X, Linux, etc.).
Unix compatibility layers as Cygwin and MinGW also provide their own versions of unistd.h. In fact, those systems provide it along with the translation libraries that implement its functions in terms of Win32 functions. For example, in Cygwin, a header file can be found in /usr/include that sub-includes a file of the same name in /usr/include/sys. Not everything is defined