[erlang-questions] erlang-questions Digest, Vol 24, Issue 40

[John Haugeland]

> Hi all,
>
> Just wanted to let you know that I found out what was preventing
> erl_interface from working on windows! :)
> The solution had already been shared on the mailing lists:
>    http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2004-April/012097.html
>    http://www.erlang.org/ml-archive/erlang-questions/200305/msg00259.html
> It's just a matter of setting stdin/out to binary mode and voil?: working code!

I wish I'd realized this was a problem; I blogged about this a while
back.  If I'd realized it was an issue I would have spoken up sooner.

Serge's implementation isn't quite correct on a fine detail about the
way Microsoft implements vendor namespacing.  That's the compatability
mode wrapper, which is discarded if certain unicode preprocessor
defines are used.  The correct answer is this very similar looking
code:

_setmode( _fileno( stdin ) , _O_BINARY );
_setmode( _fileno( stdout ), _O_BINARY );

This was found at http://fullof.bs/ha-ha-_read-and-_write-arent-binary
.  There are also instructions there for unhosted gcc-derived
toolchains (eg DevKitPro).

  - John