A bug in Cygwin [1] and poor error messages from gcc [2] lead to this confusing compilation error: qemu/qemu_monitor.c:418:9: error: passing argument 2 of 'sendmsg' from incmpatible pointer type /usr/include/sys/socket.h:42:11: note: expected 'const struct msghdr *' but argument is of type 'struct msghdr *' [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-05/msg00451.html [2] http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57475 * src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c (includes): Include <sys/socket.h> before <sys/un.h>. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com&gt; --- Pushing under the build-breaker rule. src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c index 4e35f79..ad326c5 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ #include <config.h> #include <poll.h> +#include <sys/socket.h> #include <sys/un.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <fcntl.h> -- 1.8.1.4