[PD-dev] compile pd with cygwin

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Mon Dec 3 10:00:11 CET 2007


Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> Also, it's key to point out that the standard macro is NOT "WIN32",  
> but rather "_WIN32". For whatever reason, the leading underscore is  
> needed.  

the leading underscore denotes that this define is "private" by the 
preprocessor, and thus should NOT be defined manually by the user.

Some compilers define WIN32 also, but it's not guaranteed.

the reverse as above: since preprocessors automatically define names 
_with_ leading underscores, they "should rather not" define names 
without leading underscores.


> _WIN32 is the one that is defined everywhere (MSVC, MinGW, Cygwin,  
> Borland, ICC).


apart from that, i think it would be ok to use MSW (or any other 
self-defined word) if the _WIN32, WIN32 and __WIN32 magic is handled in 
a centralized way (e.g. m_pd.h)

fmga.sdr
IOhannes




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