From 3e7c244e4b76250d921e98c262d8167d3fa051a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Rumney Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 01:18:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Note added about the Visual Studio 2005 problem. --- etc/PROBLEMS | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 5ea85866e2a..4461018b3da 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -2439,6 +2439,19 @@ This might happen due to a bug in the MinGW header assert.h, which defines the `assert' macro with a trailing semi-colon. The following patch to assert.h should solve this: +*** Building the MS-Windows port with Visual Studio 2005 fails. + +Microsoft no longer ships the single threaded version of the C library +with their compiler, and the multithreaded static library is missing +some functions that Microsoft have deemed non-threadsafe. The +dynamically linked C library has all the functions, but there is a +conflict between the versions of malloc in the DLL and in Emacs, which +is not resolvable due to the way Windows does dynamic linking. + +We recommend the use of the MingW port of GCC for compiling Emacs, as +not only does it not suffer these problems, but it is also Free +software like Emacs. + *** include/assert.h.orig Sun Nov 7 02:41:36 1999 --- include/assert.h Mon Jan 29 11:49:10 2001 *************** -- 2.39.5