Alarm callbacks on Windows with Gnu or MinGW?

[Dana Good]

Many thanks!

On 3/7/07, Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net> wrote:
> Dana Good wrote:
>
> > Please excuse me if this is the wrong location for this post - I
> > looked long and hard before I posted, and would be happy to be
> > redirected!
>
> You'd get better responses on the MinGW list.
>
> > I am using C++ in Eclipse with CDT and MinGW on a Windows machine.
> > I'd prefer not to use VC++.
> >
> > I would like to implement a simple alarm callback, a la 'C', where I
> > set a timer to go off and use a signal catcher to catch the
> > interrupt/exception/signal/whatever.
>
> For this you need to use the Win32 API.  See for example
> CreateWaitableTimer(), SetWaitableTimer(), WaitForSingleObject(),
> CreateThread/_beginthreadex and so on.  See MSDN for details, or the
> platform SDK.
>
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms681924(VS.85).aspx
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686967(VS.85).aspx
> etc.
>
> > My Googles have left me fairly convinced that I can't do this without
> > including the VC++ libraries - is this true?
>
> These are the APIs provided by the operating system; they have nothing
> to do with Visual C++.  The w32api package includes all the import
> libraries necessary to link against any of these Win32 API dlls.
>
> Brian
>