From: Alexey Borzenkov Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:01:43 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/14] Set _O_BINARY as default fmode for both MinGW and MSVC Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: > +extern int _fmode; And indeed. I just ported this patch to my custom msysgit branch (based on v1.6.4.3) and it didn't compile: CC git.o cc1.exe: warnings being treated as errors In file included from git-compat-util.h:116, from builtin.h:4, from git.c:1: compat/mingw.h:243: error: '_fmode' redeclared without dllimport attribute: previous dllimport ignored git.c: In function 'main': git.c:456: error: the address of '_iob' will always evaluate as 'true' make: *** [git.o] Error 1