[PD-dev] compile pd with cygwin

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 3, 2007, at 4:00 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> 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)


Why add something different if _WIN32 already exists and is  
automatically defined by all the compilers we use?

.hc


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