[SDL] Re: platform independent directory access

[Ben Campbell]

"A. Umbach" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm looking for a cross-platform way do to opendir(3) and readdir(3).
> This is POSIX, but of course windows wouldn't let me #include <dirent.h>
> 
> If this something that has to be done differently for each platform?
> If so, that would be a nice opportunity to write a SDL_io library.

For C++, the Boost project (http://www.boost.org) seems to have a nicely
designed library for crossplatform directory handling (at least for
win32 and posix systems).

For C... I'm not sure. Bound to be something out there already :-)

Win32 and posix directory calls map to each other _reasonably_ well, so
a wrapper shouldn't be too hard. Not sure about directory stuff on MacOS
though.


Ben.
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