Built XWin on mingw - with patches

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Thu Nov 10 22:58:00 GMT 2011


On 11/10/2011 11:29 AM, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Charles Wilson  wrote:
>> You *think* you're safe in assuming that WIN32 == !__CYGWIN__,
>> but...#include<jpeg.h>  breaks all your assumptions.  But jpeg.h *did
>> nothing wrong*.
>>
>> It's better to be explicit.
>>
>> --
>> Chuck
>
> OK, so this leads me to the next question: The existing codebase has
> substantial numbers of places with #if defined(WIN32) - do these all
> imply #if defined(WIN32)&&  !defined(__CYGWIN__) ?

That I don't know.

> I generally
> avoided touching things I didn't have to,

A good policy.

> but this may be worth
> clarifying codebase-wide.

Perhaps -- I'll leave that call to others. I suspect a global patch that 
affected only #if lines should be a separate patch from any other 
changes, if taking this action was desirable.

--
Chuck

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