[PD-dev] compile pd with cygwin

[Patrice Colet]

IOhannes m zmoelnig a écrit :
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
>> Why add something different if _WIN32 already exists and is  
>> automatically defined by all the compilers we use?
> 
> to not have to change code throughout everything?
> 
> i totally agree that one should rather use _WIN32 than MSW (or 
> whatever), that is why i have been using it in my code for years.
> 
> btw, there seems to be some obfuscation with the _WIN32, since i have 
> seen _a lot_ of projects that perfectly well use "__linux__" but fail to 
> use "_WIN32". these projects are not limited to w32-ports of linux code.
> it is probably because _WIN32 is one of the worst documented automagic 
> macros...
> so it is not only pd-code that uses hacks to find out whether it is 
> actually compiled for w32.
> 
> 
> furthermore, having _WIN32 defined on w64 is an _ugly_ hack on 
> micro$oft's side, there is no need to support that.
> MSW (if it is kept) could/should be defined for both w32 and w64, and it 
> should be automatically defined (that is: not within the makefile but 
> within a central place, like m_pd.h)
> 
> mfga.sdr
> IOhannes
> 

Good, then the source wouldn't need to be modified at all for -mno-cygwin.