[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/etc/PROBLEMS,v

[Jason Rumney]

CVSROOT:        /sources/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Jason Rumney <jasonr>   07/03/03 01:18:48

Index: PROBLEMS
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RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/etc/PROBLEMS,v
retrieving revision 1.208
retrieving revision 1.209
diff -u -b -r1.208 -r1.209
--- PROBLEMS    28 Feb 2007 03:12:39 -0000      1.208
+++ PROBLEMS    3 Mar 2007 01:18:47 -0000       1.209
@@ -2439,6 +2439,19 @@
 defines the `assert' macro with a trailing semi-colon.  The following
 patch to assert.h should solve this:
 
+*** Building the MS-Windows port with Visual Studio 2005 fails.
+
+Microsoft no longer ships the single threaded version of the C library
+with their compiler, and the multithreaded static library is missing
+some functions that Microsoft have deemed non-threadsafe. The
+dynamically linked C library has all the functions, but there is a
+conflict between the versions of malloc in the DLL and in Emacs, which
+is not resolvable due to the way Windows does dynamic linking.
+
+We recommend the use of the MingW port of GCC for compiling Emacs, as
+not only does it not suffer these problems, but it is also Free
+software like Emacs.
+
 *** include/assert.h.orig      Sun Nov  7 02:41:36 1999
 --- include/assert.h   Mon Jan 29 11:49:10 2001
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