Re: [Help-gsl] test release for GSL 2.2

[Patrick Alken]

I believe %zu is part of the C99 standard. I'm not sure how to make it 
portable for C90 on windows, any ideas?

On 08/26/2016 02:55 PM, maxgacode wrote:
> Il 25/08/2016 17:32, Patrick Alken ha scritto:
> > Dear all,
> >
> >   It is time to release the next version of GSL (2.2),
>
>
> Windows 7 - 64 bit - MINGW64 - GCC 6.1.0
>
> Using
>
>
> CFLAGS="-mfpmath=sse -msse2 -O2 -mthreads -DHAVE_INLINE 
> -DGSL_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DGSL_RANGE_CHECK=0 -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=1"
>
>
> Compilation OK
> make check OK - all passed
> documentation not builded (so far) because texinfo is not installed.
>
> Please, MINGW user, note
>
> The source code in spio.c (spmatrix) is using the modifier %zu in 
> stdio functions. MINGW is not supporting %zu because the used 
> Microsoft runtime libray doesn't.
>
> So it is required to use
>
> -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=1
>
> to pass the spmatrix testing forcing the ANSI STDIO. Otherwise the 
> related testing will fail!
>
> I don't know if Windows users with Visual Express are affected. As far 
> as I know %zu is just supported from Express 2015 onwards (2013 is not 
> supporting %zu)
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Max