Re: Preprocessor defines in MS-Windows build

[Óscar Fuentes]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>  _X86_               -- not needed, defined automatically by MinGW
>>                         headers
>>  i386                -- not needed
>>   
>
> They may not be needed for a mingw build, but do the msvc headers also
> define them?

I quick check for VC6 does not find i386. _X86_ is in WINDOWS.H

[snip]

>>  USE_CRT_DLL         -- looks like it's unneeded, since we never use
>>                         anything but the CRTDLL.dll runtime
>
> I think there was at least an experimental attempt many years ago to
> use MSVCRT.dll with the msvc compiler, and if we are ever to get more
> recent versions of msvc working again it will be necessary to keep
> this around.

CRTDLL.dll (?) is not on the list of loaded dll's for an Emacs
process. MSVCRT.dll is.

-- 
Oscar