Linker error on the Microsoft Windows platform about ert HOT 7 CLOSED

Hi, @rezobe and thanks for reporting this issue. We have as of today frozen this repository, and development is now happening on Statoil/libecl.

I hope you can take the time to file the issue there instead of here.

I also want to mention that none of the developers are running Microsoft Windows, so some hickups are to be expected. We want to help you however, did you read Windows.txt?

Go here if you rather want to install Ubuntu.

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It might perhaps be an issue with 32-bits MinGW, and that we have to explicitly call _mkgmtime32 in the case that windows 32 is used.

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That shouldn't be necessary, that's only when you need to force it to be 32-bit. Using 64_t values on 32-bit systems should be just fine.

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What I tried to say was that in MinGW32, there is no symbol called _mkgmtime, but there is one called _mkgmtime32. I might of course be very wrong.

Ubuntu has the correct symbols, though.

from ert.

I think this is a known issue with mingw. https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/bugs/473/ What compiler are you using, @rezobe?

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If you want to test the theory, simply go to util.c:3349 (or thereabout) and update _mkgmtime to _mkgmtime32.

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@pgdr There is no symbol for _mkgmtime because it's an inline function/macro that expands to _mkgmtim64. According to the documentation anyway.

_mkgmtime is an inline function that evaluates to _mkgmtime64, and time_t is equivalent to __time64_t. If you need to force the compiler to interpret time_tas the old 32-bit time_t, you can define _USE_32BIT_TIME_T. This is not recommended because your application might fail after January 18, 2038 (the maximum range of a 32-bit time_t), and it is not allowed at all on 64-bit platforms.

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