S_ISREG macro undefined

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Questions

• Are the posix macros S_ISREG, S_ISDIR etc linux only? I need to find out because i am trying to compile CURL and it is trying to use them on windows
• Wh

Answer 1

Currently curl 7.21.5 defines in setup.h this:

#if !defined(S_ISREG) && defined(S_IFMT) && defined(S_IFREG)
#define S_ISREG(m) (((m) & S_IFMT) == S_IFREG)
#endif

Answer 2

No such thing on windows, you can use the FindFirstFile, FindNextFile win32 api, the return structure contains something similar but not the same.

If you use gcc/mingw library they have a stat() simulation. You need to include sys/stat.h for that macro.

Answer 3

On windows try adding the underscore (_S_ISREG). In MinGW's lib the S_ISREG macro is also accessible in <sys/stat.h>

Maybe you should just check your configuration macros.

Answer 4

After having inspected Microsoft's sys/stat.h, I found that the following modification of @OliverZendel's answer worked for me, with Visual Studio 2017, and hopefully on other compilers as well:

// Windows does not define the S_ISREG and S_ISDIR macros in stat.h, so we do.
// We have to define _CRT_INTERNAL_NONSTDC_NAMES 1 before #including sys/stat.h
// in order for Microsoft's stat.h to define names like S_IFMT, S_IFREG, and S_IFDIR,
// rather than just defining  _S_IFMT, _S_IFREG, and _S_IFDIR as it normally does.
#define _CRT_INTERNAL_NONSTDC_NAMES 1
#include <sys/stat.h>
#if !defined(S_ISREG) && defined(S_IFMT) && defined(S_IFREG)
  #define S_ISREG(m) (((m) & S_IFMT) == S_IFREG)
#endif
#if !defined(S_ISDIR) && defined(S_IFMT) && defined(S_IFDIR)
  #define S_ISDIR(m) (((m) & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR)
#endif