RE: MSVC compiler support [patch 16]: liboctave exported symbols

[John W. Eaton]

On 27-Oct-2006, address@hidden wrote:

| > I applied this patch, except for the part of this section that
| > undefines min and max. Why is that needed here but not in any other
| > files that use min or max?
| 
| The problem only occurs because some Windows header defines min and
| max as macros. oct-time.cc includes <windows.h> before oct-time.h; hence
| the compilation error.

OK, I see now that we have similar code in lo-utils.h.  So I just
changed oct-time.cc to use

  #if defined (OCTAVE_USE_WINDOWS_API)
  #include <windows.h>
  #undef min
  #undef max
  #endif

Thanks,

jwe