Re: Compiling xemacs with Visual Studio 2015 Community ('free') edition

Sean MacLennan <[email protected]> writes:

> On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 19:58:09 +0100
> [email protected] (Henry S. Thompson) wrote:
>> Large numbers of _-prefixed fns are showing is unavailable, but I
>> can't see where they're coming from.
>
> Could you list a couple of the _-prefixed functions. Usually the
> problem is the other way around... they want _ functions instead of the
> normal functions.

1> bscmake -nologo -oC:\C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-upstream\src\temacs.bsc @C:\C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-upstream\nt\obj\bscmake.tmp
1> del C:\C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-upstream\nt\obj\bscmake.tmp
1> link.exe @C:\Users\ht\AppData\Local\Temp\nm5FE7.tmp
...
1>win32.obj: error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _memcpy
...
1>text.obj: error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__wcslen
...
1>win32.obj: error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _strcmp

And so on -- dozens of symbols, most referenced from dozens of files.
Google/stackoverflow suggest this is something to do with the various
flavours of MSVCRT, but I'd expect VS to take care of that sort of
thing. . .

The compilations themselves all look like this:

cl -nologo -W3 -DSTRICT  -Zi -Od -MDd -c -TP -IC:\C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-upstream\nt\inc -IC:\C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-upstream\src -I"c:\C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-64bit\nt\winlibs\xpm-3.4k" -I"c:\C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-64bit\nt\winlibs\xpm-3.4k\lib" -I"c:\C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-64bit\nt\winlibs\libpng-1.2.40" -I"c:\C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-64bit\nt\winlibs\zlib-1.2.3" -I"c:\C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-64bit\nt\winlibs\tiff-3.7.3\libtiff" -I"c:\C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-64bit\nt\winlibs\compface-1.5.1" -I"c:\C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-64bit\nt\winlibs\zlib-1.2.3" -I"c:\C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-64bit\nt\winlibs\db-4.3.28\build_win32" -I"c:\C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-64bit\nt\winlibs\postgresql-8.0.3\src\include" -I"c:\C64\usr\local\src\xem
 acs-21.5-64bit\nt\winlibs\postgresql-8.0.3\src\interfaces\libpq"  -DHAVE_MS_WINDOWS -DHAVE_MENUBARS -DHAVE_SCROLLBARS -DHAVE_TOOLBARS -DHAVE_WIDGETS -DHAVE_DIALOGS -DHAVE_XPM -DFOR_MSW -DHA!
 VE_PNG -DHAVE_TIFF -DHAVE_XFACE -DHAVE_ZLIB -DHAVE_DATABASE -DHAVE_BERKELEY_DB -DDB_H_FILE=\"db.h\" -DHAVE_POSTGRESQL -DHAVE_POSTGRESQLV7 -DLIBPQ_FE_H_FILE=\"libpq-fe.h\" -DHAVE_NATIVE_SOUND -DERROR_CHECK_ALL -DPDUMP -DUSE_KKCC -DSYSTEM_MALLOC -DDEBUG_XEMACS -D_DEBUG  -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DWIN32_NATIVE -Demacs  -DNTDDI_VERSION=NTDDI_WIN2K -D_WIN32_WINNT=_WIN32_WINNT_WIN2K -D_CRT_NO_POSIX_ERROR_CODES -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DPATH_VERSION=\"21.5-b34\" -DPATH_PROGNAME=\"xemacs\" -DEMACS_VERSION=\"21.5-b34\"             -DEMACS_PROGNAME=\"xemacs\" -DSHEBANG_PROGNAME=\"xemacs-script\" -DSTACK_TRACE_EYE_CATCHER=xemacs_21_5_b34_i586_pc_win32 -DPATH_PREFIX=\""c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\XEmacs-21.5-b34"\" -DEMACS_MAJOR_VERSION=21  -DEMACS_MINOR_VERSION=5 -DEMACS_BETA_VERSION=34   -DXEMACS_CODENAME=\""k
 ale"\" -DXEMACS_EXTRA_NAME=\"""\"  -DEMACS_CONFIGURATION=\"i586-pc-win32\" C:\C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-upstream\src\win32.c -FoC:\C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-upstream\nt\obj\win32.ob!
 j -FRC:\C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-upstream\nt\obj\win32.sb!
 r -FdC:\
C64\usr\local\src\xemacs-21.5-upstream\nt\obj\temacs.pdb

Thanks for any suggestions you can offer,

ht
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