Re: building lilypond.exe to test WinME fixes

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Brynne and Russ Jorgensen writes:

> if (GetStdHandle (STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE) == INVALID_HANDLE) {
>       /* send stdout to nul device */
>       freopen ("nul$", "w", stdout);
> }
>
> This shouldn't cause problems on other versions of Windows, but if we
> wanted to be super conservative we could conditionalize it for just
> Win9x/ME.

I've built a new version using the patch below.  This is not the
official 2.6.1 yet.  Can some of you test/report on what flavours of
windows this works?

    http://lilypond.org/people/janneke/windhoos

Thanks,
Jan.

--- main.cc     14 jun 2005 02:19:37 +0200      1.264
+++ main.cc     09 jul 2005 10:37:27 +0200      
@@ -726,9 +726,25 @@ parse_argv (int argc, char **argv)
     }
 }
 
+#ifdef __MINGW32__
+#  include "windows.h"
+#  ifndef INVALID_HANDLE
+#    define INVALID_HANDLE ((void*) -1)
+#  endif
+#endif
+
 int
 main (int argc, char **argv)
 {
+#ifdef __MINGW32__
+  /* Possible gs.exe fix for DOS-based Windowses.  */
+  if (GetStdHandle (STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE) == INVALID_HANDLE)
+    {
+      freopen ("nul$", "w", stdout);
+      freopen ("nul$", "w", stderr);
+    }
+#endif
+
   setup_localisation ();
   setup_paths (argv[0]);
   parse_argv (argc, argv);


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