From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:17:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Version 1.8.1 does not compile on Cygwin 1.7.14
Message-ID: <CALxABCavvW77djKQnbQsjCBcahmMfrP24SDz609NG-94_ifZ9Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALxABCYHRp17rcoOca1xWG9S19fq2rotz8FEKo09jNdrgMLiyQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> This short discussion on GitHub (file git-compat-util.h) might be relevant:
>
> https://github.com/msysgit/git/commit/435bdf8c7ffa493f8f6f2e8f329f8cc22db16ce6#commitcomment-2407194
>
> The change suggested there (to remove an inclusion of windows.h in
> git-compat-util.h) might simplify the solution a little. Might even
> remove the need for auto-configuration in Makefile (worked for me).

Just to be clear, the change is this:

diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 4a1979f..780a919 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -85,12 +85,6 @@
 #define _NETBSD_SOURCE 1
 #define _SGI_SOURCE 1

-#ifdef WIN32 /* Both MinGW and MSVC */
-#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN  /* stops windows.h including winsock.h */
-#include <winsock2.h>
-#include <windows.h>
-#endif
-
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>