Re: [HACKERS] zic with msvc

> >>> + #ifdef WIN32
> >>> + #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0400
> >>> + #endif
> >>
> >> Hmm ... in pg_ctl.c I see
> >>
> >> #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500
> >>
> >> Is there a reason for these to be different? Are there
> other places
> >> that will need this (ie, maybe it should be in c.h instead?)
>
> > Not really. The default appears to be 0x0400 for MingW (or
> it wouldn't
> > have worked before), but 0x0350 or so for Visual C++.
> > If we define it to 0x0500 we pull in headers that will only work on
> > 2000 or newer.
>
> Hm. Actually, if the rest of the backend compiles without
> this, then I guess the real question is what's zic.c doing
> that needs it? pg_ctl.c has an excuse because it's doing
> weird MS-specific junk, but zic.c is supposed to be
> bog-standard portable code. It really shouldn't have
> anything that's further out there than you could find in ten
> other places in the backend.

Only almost. There is a small function to emulate link(), which uses
CopyFileEx(). That's the one.

//Magnus