[Ecls-list] [spam?] Compiling with msvc

[Goffioul Michael]

> Recenty I have some problems with compiling with mcvs (I am 
> sure that this worked fine before). Recently means >= 9.i
> 
> The error i get is something about _errno no be defined.
> Google told me that this happens if different c-runtimes are 
> being mixed.
> I saw in the logs that for whatever reason while compiling 
> gc.lib the parameter /MD is replaced with /ML.
> 
> I fixed this by the following changing of the order of 
> parameters in the makefile.
> {$(srcdir)}.c{}.obj:
>  $(cc) $(cdebug) $(cflags) $(cvars)
> $(MFLAGS) -I$(srcdir)\include -DSILENT 
> -DALL_INTERIOR_POINTERS -D__STDC__ -DGC_DLL  -DGC_BUILD 
> -DLARGE_CONFIG $(THREADS_FLAGS) $< /Fo$*.obj
> 
> .cpp.obj:
>  $(cc) $(cdebug) $(cflags) $(cvars)
> $(MFLAGS) -I$(srcdir)\include -DSILENT 
> -DALL_INTERIOR_POINTERS -DGC_DLL -DGC_BUILD  -DLARGE_CONFIG 
> $(THREADS_FLAGS) $*.CPP /Fo$*.obj
> 
> For whatever reason in the cvars is a /ML

cvars is defined in ntwin32.mak from your MSVC installation. This
used to work on my system, because cvars does not contain /ML
(which is the default for VC98).

> Anybody else with this probelm?
> How else to assure the right c-runtime library?

Everything should be compiled with the /MD flag.

Michael.