Re: 23.0; Current CVS Emacs: compiling fails on windows xp using msvc 2003

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

Christoph Conrad wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> * Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Tried again with freshly updated emacs today.
>
>   
>>> .\configure.bat --with-msvc --without-png --without-jpeg g
>>> --without-gif --without-tiff --without-xpm
>>>
>>> nmake bootstrap
>>>       
>
> =>
>
> * Resourcecompiler "rc" complained about the compressed
>   nt/icons/emacs.ico format. Web search revealed that VS 2008 accepts
>   that format, below VS 2008 not. So loaded that icon file into an icon
>   editor and switched off the compression.
>   
Is that a warning or an error? The resource compiler shouldn't really 
care about the contents of the icon, it should just do as it is told and 
include it as a resource.

> * Linker complains about missing _round in "w32font.c". After adding a
>   round function to "w32font.c" compilation/linking worked.
>   

We can probably work around this. msvc appears to have floor and ceil, 
just not an equivalent of round or rint.