Re: [Bug-XBoard] We distribute wrongly compiled WinBoard binaries

[h.g. muller]

> No.  You do not want to check against _MSC_VER for the format 
> specification.  What matters is linking against the msvcrt, not the 
> compiler used.  You *could* check the _MSC_VER in order to prefer "%lld" 
> when you know you'll be linking with non-buggy versions.  But since they 
> are back-compatible to support the %I64 syntax, it isn't necessary.
>
> You DO want to check against _MSC_VER for the data type itself.  When 
> using MS compilers, it needs to be __int64 of some flavor, and long long 
> for non-MS compilers.  Linking with the msvcrt is irrelevant for the data 
> type itself.

Perhaps I misunderstand the function of the makefile.ms then? I thought 
that that was only included for doing a command-line compile with MSVC. And 
I assumed that when doing that, you would _always_ link with msvcrt. Is 
this wrong?