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Undeclared reference to access on Windows

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From: Kirill Makurin <maiddaisuki <at> outlook.com>
To: "bug-libtool <at> gnu.org" <bug-libtool <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Undeclared reference to access on Windows
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 16:22:42 +0000

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Building libltdl on Windows using clang-cl.exe fails with the following diagnostic:

```
H:/git/libtool/libltdl/ltdl.c(781,19): error: call to undeclared function 'access'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
  781 |   int           notfound        = access (filename, R_OK);
      |                                   ^
H:/git/libtool/libltdl/ltdl.c(781,19): note: did you mean 'accept'?
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.22000.0\\um\winsock.h(739,19): note: 'accept' declared here
  739 | SOCKET PASCAL FAR accept (
      |                   ^
```

On native Windows (MSVC/mingw), access is declared in io.h, which is not included. (On mingw, it could be indirectly included from
other header files.)

A solution would be to add

```
#if defined (_WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN__)
#include <io.h>
#endif
```

on top of libltdl/ltdl.c.

- Kirill Makurin

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Message #10 received at 78701-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com>
To: 78701-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Kirill Makurin <maiddaisuki <at> outlook.com>
Subject: Re: bug#78701: Undeclared reference to access on Windows
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 20:47:51 +0300

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On 05/06/2025 19:22, Kirill Makurin wrote:
> Building libltdl on Windows using clang-cl.exe fails with the following 
> diagnostic:
> 
> ```
> H:/git/libtool/libltdl/ltdl.c(781,19): error: call to undeclared 
> function 'access'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function 
> declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>    781 |   int           notfound        = access (filename, R_OK);
>        |                                   ^
> H:/git/libtool/libltdl/ltdl.c(781,19): note: did you mean 'accept'?
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.22000.0\ 
> \um\winsock.h(739,19): note: 'accept' declared here
>    739 | SOCKET PASCAL FAR accept (
>        |                   ^
> ```
> 
> On native Windows (MSVC/mingw), access is declared in io.h, which is not 
> included. (On mingw, it could be indirectly included from
> other header files.)
> 
> A solution would be to add
> 
> ```
> #if defined (_WIN32) && !defined (__CYGWIN__)
> #include <io.h>
> #endif
> ```
> 
> on top of libltdl/ltdl.c.

Thank you for the bug report and suggested patch! I have applied the
change to ltdl.h, and it is on the development branch [1].

[1] 
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?h=development&id=a26932a36ecb2c3013be0c1e7fdbf2eb9062e845

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