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porting gzip to Visual Studio 2015 failed due to redesign of CRT

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Message #17 received at 25633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker <at> infor.com>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>, "bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>,
 "25633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <25633 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: bug#25633: porting gzip to Visual Studio 2015 failed due to
 redesign of CRT
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 07:50:15 +0000

>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.

Are the mentioned patches in the snapshot that was provided by Jim?
In any case, I will check today. Thanks for prompt replies.

If you like, I can share some additional changes I've made, e.g. Visual Studio does not like -g flag, a WIN32 define that should be _WIN32 (a CL.exe built-in macro), a workaround for missing #include_next directive (which is not supported by Visual Studio), a struct that is in sys/time.h instead of time.h (utimens.c). Please let me know the preferred format of changed. Is a UNIX style patch ok (using gzip-1.8.18-00e6 as reference)?

I'm not familiar enough with configure to be able to add 'auto-detect' rules for e.g. adding a HAVE_SYS_UTIME_H directive (needed in utimens.c to get struct utimbuf). The same applies to detect whether -g flag is (not) supported by the used compiler.

Background: I tried to get the Visual Studio build working by performing the following steps:
a. open a Visual Studio command prompt (that have set LIB, INCLUDE etc environment variables)
b. from within this prompt, start Cygwin shell
c. run CC=cl.exe ./configure
d. import result into a visual studio project file (this step is only needed for us to incorporate the gzip build in our own build).

Regards,
Kees

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