Re: MXE win32 errors "'WIFEXITED' was not declared in this scope"

[Andreas Weber]

On 25.06.2014 20:11, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> When trying to build octave-4.1.0+ for windows (MXE-cross-build) I get error
> messages related to mkoctfile, apparently due to changeset 5b7b18d603ae
> 'mkoctfile.in.cc: fix return value if subprocess fails (bug #42549).':
> 
> mkoctfile.cc:348:24: error 'WIFEXITED' was not declared in this scope
> mkoctfile.cc:349:33: error 'WEXITSTATUS' was not declared in this scope
> 
> Where are these identifiers (macros) declared for win32 systems?

After searching I think they are not defined for win32 and system just
returns the return value of the command interpreter or -1 on error

(from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/277bwbdz%28v=VS.100%29.aspx)

and I suggest

diff -r 47d4b680d0e0 src/mkoctfile.in.cc
--- a/src/mkoctfile.in.cc       Fri Jun 20 18:55:38 2014 -0400
+++ b/src/mkoctfile.in.cc       Thu Jun 26 16:01:55 2014 +0200
@@ -345,8 +345,10 @@
   if (debug)
     std::cout << cmd << std::endl;
   int result = system (cmd.c_str ());
+#ifndef __WIN32__
   if (WIFEXITED (result))
     result = WEXITSTATUS (result);
+#endif
   return result;
 }

-- Andy