Re: Build failure on Windows using MSVC

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:31:13 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:19:37 +0530 (IST)
> > From: dhruva <address@hidden>
> > 
> >  Build of Emacs from HEAD on WXP using MSVC 2003 fails due to redefinition 
> > of a structure MEMORYSTATUSEX. The following patch fixes the issue on WXP 
> > (W2K prof and upwards as that structure is available on W2K+). Need to test 
> > on older versions and I have no access to it.
> 
> What is the exact error message emitted by Studio 2003?  Is there
> perhaps a compiler switch to avoid such an error?  Is our definition
> incompatible with what VS 2003 defines?
> 
> I need the above information to come up with a suitable solution that
> will work with all supported platforms and compiler versions.  Someone
> else compiled this CVS code with VS 6 and didn't have this problem, so
> we need to find a solution that doesn't break versions of VS other
> than yours.

Actually, forget it, I think I found an easier way of fixing this.
Could you please try the latest CVS and see if the problem is gone?