Re: [PATCH] Compile fix for MSVC: Move poll.h out of sys-folder

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Erik Faye-Lund [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

In v1.7.7.1-432-g0f77dea (Oct 24 2011; Erik Faye-Lund; mingw: move
poll out of sys-folder) poll.h was moved out of the compat/win32/sys
folder. As the change in the Makefile also affects the MSVC build,
the same must be done for poll.h in compat/vcbuild/include/sys/poll.h.

Signed-off-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <redacted>
---
 compat/vcbuild/include/poll.h     |    1 +
 compat/vcbuild/include/sys/poll.h |    1 -
 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 compat/vcbuild/include/poll.h
 delete mode 100644 compat/vcbuild/include/sys/poll.h

This looks strange to me. vcbuild/include/poll.h will only prevent the
correct header from being included, while compiling an linking against
compat/win32/poll.[co]... That seems dangerous to me, because the
interface might be declared differently.

Instead, I think compat/vcbuild/include/poll.h should be removed, and
_WIN32_WINNT set to a value below 0x600. That way the poll-stuff
doesn't get pulled in by winsock2.h (as it's Vista and above only).

This was already discussed in your "[PATCHv2] Compile fix for MSVC" thread:
http://mid.gmane.org/CABPQNSaCRRRpEQPG1Mb4DovkMdQSBhHTm-i7y5M4iT+ndHX4XA@mail.gmail.com

Here's the patch that fixes it.

Johannes Schindelin was nice enough to create a commit based on my
e-mail, feel free to pick it up and submit it:

https://github.com/msysgit/git/commit/9ca803910f3625bf686699f6b0bf71a8c68bccae