+// if the platform doesn't have symlinks, define wxCRT_Lstat to be the same as
+// wxCRT_Stat to avoid #ifdefs in the code using it
+#ifndef wxHAS_NATIVE_LSTAT
+ #define wxCRT_Lstat wxCRT_Stat
+#endif
+
+// define wxFseek/wxFtell to large file versions if available (done above) or
+// to fseek/ftell if not, to save ifdefs in using code
+#ifndef wxFseek
+ #define wxFseek fseek
+#endif
+#ifndef wxFtell
+ #define wxFtell ftell
+#endif
+
+inline int wxAccess(const wxString& path, mode_t mode)
+ { return wxCRT_Access(path.fn_str(), mode); }
+inline int wxOpen(const wxString& path, int flags, mode_t mode)
+ { return wxCRT_Open(path.fn_str(), flags, mode); }
+
+// FIXME-CE: provide our own implementations of the missing CRT functions
+#ifndef __WXWINCE__
+inline int wxStat(const wxString& path, wxStructStat *buf)
+ { return wxCRT_Stat(path.fn_str(), buf); }
+inline int wxLstat(const wxString& path, wxStructStat *buf)
+ { return wxCRT_Lstat(path.fn_str(), buf); }
+inline int wxRmDir(const wxString& path)
+ { return wxCRT_RmDir(path.fn_str()); }
+#if (defined(__WINDOWS__) && !defined(__CYGWIN__)) \
+ || (defined(__OS2__) && defined(__WATCOMC__))
+inline int wxMkDir(const wxString& path, mode_t WXUNUSED(mode) = 0)
+ { return wxCRT_MkDir(path.fn_str()); }
+#else
+inline int wxMkDir(const wxString& path, mode_t mode)
+ { return wxCRT_MkDir(path.fn_str(), mode); }
+#endif
+#endif // !__WXWINCE__
+
+#ifdef O_BINARY
+ #define wxO_BINARY O_BINARY
+#else
+ #define wxO_BINARY 0
+#endif
+
+#if defined(__VISAGECPP__) && __IBMCPP__ >= 400
+//
+// VisualAge C++ V4.0 cannot have any external linkage const decs
+// in headers included by more than one primary source
+//
+extern const int wxInvalidOffset;
+#else
+const int wxInvalidOffset = -1;
+#endif