Re: Build failure with fastcgi module

[Ken B. <kb...@co...>]

Hi Bruno,

On 3/5/2017 2:53 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
>> I'd like to try removing all uses of '#include <windows.h>' from the Cygwin build.
>> Cygwin is a Posix platform, and trying to mix the Posix API with the Windows API
>> often causes problems.
>
> Do you mean
>   a) to not use Windows API on Cygwin?
>   b) keep using the Windows API on Cygwin, but don't include <windows.h> from
>      lispbibl.d and clisp.h.
>
> a) If you know good replacements for our uses of the Windows API?
>
> b) I would advise against this.
>
>    In a world where the system's include files are all standalone and not
>    conflicting (like glibc systems), it's OK if every compilation unit does
>    only the #includes that it needs.
>
>    But in a world where the include files define types differently, have to
>    be included in a particular order, or define identifiers like ULONGLONG
>    that belong in the programmer's namespace, it's less effort in the long
>    run to use the same includes for all compilation units. This is how
>    lispbibl.d started out, and this is why many other projects also have
>    one main include file.
>
>    With Cygwin and <windows.h> - which we DO need to mix in some places -
>    we are in the second case.

I see your point.  And in any case, removing the use of windows.h is 
much more complicated than I thought.  I spent a few hours on this, and 
every change I made led to a new problem that had to be fixed.  I 
withdraw my suggestion.

Thanks for all your work on clisp.  It's nice to see development resuming.

Ken