Kees Dekker wrote: > > I tried to compile gzip with visual studio 2015. Unfortunately, a few files > > could not be ported. Microsoft has redesigned the core CRT which affects > > the visibility of (hidden/internals) of e.g. the FILE type. None of the > > internals of the FILE type is not visible anymore (contrary to Visual > > Studio 2013 and before). This affects e.g. freadingc, fpurge.c, fseeko.c, > > fseterr.c.
gnulib has been updated to work with this platform on 2016-12-13, see http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commit;h=5506db6b006274762bf5ea1d23feb7a9801529c8 Eric Blake replied: > If you can help port gnulib to the newer visual studio 2015, I'm sure > patches are welcome. > ... > we welcome patches to catch back up to the current state of things. While in general this is a good advise, in this case it's not needed. All the reporter needs is a new gzip snapshot tarball that uses gnulib version 2016-12-14 or newer. Bruno
