Re: [P21.5] Patches for Native Windows Builds

This "auto-migrate" thing sounds cool.  Too bad you didn't work in the
compiler or tools groups at Microsoft.



On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:50 AM, Michael Sperber <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Vin Shelton <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Here are the patches necessary to build on Windows native, using VS6.
>> Please note a couple of things:
>>
>> 1) no attempt is made to support TLS.  This is the patch necessary to
>> go on building w/o TLS.
>> 2) I don't understand why the patch to sysdep.c is necessary, but
>> without this, the call to ioctl yields an "undefined identifier" from
>> VS6.  The only changes made to sysdep.c between 21.5.34 (which doesn't
>> need this commenting out) and now were hygenic changes made by Aidan.
>> Something must have changed in a header file, but I don't know what.
>
> Hero you are.  Any chance trying to auto-migrate this to a newer version
> of VS?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mike