Re: [Mingw-users] compile failure in <winnt.h>

[Paul Thomas]

Danny Smith wrote:

> You may have hit a compiler parsing bug (fixed in later gcc).  Try
> breaking up the
> declaration
> of _IMAGE_AUX_SYMBOL in winnt.h  into
>
> union _IMAGE_AUX_SYMBOL
> {
> ....
> };
>
> typedef union _IMAGE_AUX_SYMBOL IMAGE_AUX_SYMBOL;
> typedef union _IMAGE_AUX_SYMBOL * PIMAGE_AUX_SYMBOL;
>
>  
Danny,

This did not do it for me.  I tried to reproduce the problem in small 
test programme and, following a suggestion from John Eaton, I took a 
look at the temporaries, to see if the expansion of the structure was 
OK.   All this was to no avail.  Finally, I removed the offending 
declaration, in its entirity, since it is not used in the building if 
the library concerned, and the compilation went through.  I have not yet 
completed the build of octave because I am still, to my chagrin, missing 
an external library.  However, progress has been made!

Thanks for your help

Paul Thomas