RE: File I/O specially Directory I/O

["Foster, Gareth" <gareth foster siemens com>]

> I have developed a small library under LINUX, my library relies on
> unistd.h to handle certain File I/O operations, specially 
> when it comes to
> manipulating Directories. Now that I am porting my library to 
> MSWindows
> using the MingW I heve a problems since MingW does not have 
> unistd.h. I
> was wondering if GTKmm has its own File I/O handling class, 
> if there is
> none, do you know of a work arround this prolem?
> Otherwise, I would not mind writing a class that will mimic 
> the function
> included in the unistd.h using the WIN32API, but I am very 
> inexperienced
> MSWindows programmer and I don't know what are the functions 
> handling File
> I/O and/or Directory I/O in the WIN32API. Is there a web site 
> describing
> the WIN32API?
> 

Could try Boost Filesystem [ boost.org ]?