From: vzell@de.oracle.com (Dr. Volker Zell)
Subject: Re: I: gcc ... -U_WIN32 ... may cause problems
11 Sep 1998 02:20:00 -0700
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To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Cc: khan@xraylith.wisc.edu, gnu-win32@cygnus.com

Hi

    >> The `argument' I have for removing the _WIN32 from cygwin32
    >> (I'll live with mingw32) is that there exists code that already
    >> has some porting to WIN32 and it gets in the way of wanting to
    >> build the __UNIX__ version under WIN32.  Since this is the goal
    >> of the Cygnus Project then it would be best served to remove
    >> the definitions of _WIN32.

I agree with Earnie, I ported a couple of programs and the only
changes I had to make to the sources was commenting out the _WIN32
stuff because I like to make the Unix versions.

Ciao
  Volker


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