Thread: Need some suggestions for cross platform code

Originally Posted by Vithika

One potential solution is to use the pread and pwrite system calls, which provide the same functionality as read and write, but allow for a file offset to be specified as a parameter. This way, you can avoid all the complexities associated with synchronizing file offsets, and it should be more efficient as well.

Thank you, I'll look into that as soon as I report a bug in mingw, they hid the FileSetPointer & FileSetPointerEx behind this:

Code:

#if WINAPI_FAMILY_PARTITION (WINAPI_PARTITION_DESKTOP) || _WIN32_WINNT >= _WIN32_WINNT_WIN10

The 1st condition is fine but the 2nd is flat out wrong, that function was available way earlier than Windows 10 and I've not been able to compile as a result of it

Originally Posted by awsdert

Thank you, I'll look into that as soon as I report a bug in mingw, they hid the FileSetPointer & FileSetPointerEx behind this:

Code:

#if WINAPI_FAMILY_PARTITION (WINAPI_PARTITION_DESKTOP) || _WIN32_WINNT >= _WIN32_WINNT_WIN10

The 1st condition is fine but the 2nd is flat out wrong, that function was available way earlier than Windows 10 and I've not been able to compile as a result of it

I'm a dumbass, I remembered the function names wrong, was supposed to use SetFilePointer instead of FileSetPointer,