On Tuesday, July 6 2010, "Yves Goergen" wrote to "tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov" saying:
On 06.07.2010 04:06 CE(S)T, Robert Elz wrote:
When that happens, for sure, zic will deal with it.
zic deals exactly nothing for me right now. Is there a Windows binary available somewhere? Are the generated zic files available? Could somebody assist me in building zic for Windows?
zic uses the low-level POSIX file I/O calls (open/read/write) rather than the high-level C file I/O calls (fopen/fread/fwrite), as well as some APIs without C equivalents (mkdir) and some POSIX-specific concepts (link/symlink), so directly porting it to a non-POSIX system without an emulation layer would probably be a fair amount of trouble. Fortunately, Cygwin <http://cygwin.com/> provides an excellent POSIX emulation for Windows, and includes the tzcode binaries (zic and friends) and the generated tzdata files in its base distribution. -- Jonathan Lennox lennox@cs.columbia.edu