[Project-managers] turn off windows popups in failing unit tests

[Ted Ralphs]

This is strange, but I don't think it's a problem with MinGW. I built 
successfully with the MinGW gcc compiler, which uses its own 
implementation of windows.h and it linked just fine. So the MinGW gcc 
libraries do in fact define these things, but if you are using cl, it's 
seeing those libraries and should be looking in some MSVC++ library for 
these symbols. I'm not sure why they wouldn't be there unless it's new 
in version 9. Anyone know?

By the way, I just undefed HAVE_WINDOWS_H in configall_system_msc.h, so 
  the fixes will no longer be applied by default if building with the 
MSVC++ IDE. You will have to modify that header file if you want to use 
them. This will keep the build from breaking for users who do not the 
SDK installed.

Cheers,

Ted

Lou Hafer wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> 	I tried Stefan's suggested change in the Osi unitTest over the weekend
> and ran into problems.  The build environment is MinGW / cl, configuring with
> --enable-doscompile=msvc.  I have the full MSVC8, which includes the Platform
> SDK as part of the MSVC installation.
> 
> 	Configuration finds Windows.h, the symbol HAVE_WINDOWS_H is defined, and
> the relevant bits of code are apparently included.  But cl complains that the
> symbols SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS and SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX are not defined.
> Grepping about in the MSVC include directories, these are defined in WinBase.h
> (I think --- I'm going from memory here).  But an explicit include of WinBase.h
> didn't help.
> 
> 	I'll poke at this a bit more, but thought I'd try a post here to see if
> any regular Windows user recognises the problem.  From a quick scan of
> Windows.h, my working theory is that the MinGW environment fails to define some
> necessary symbol.  Hints appreciated.
> 
> 	I seem to have missed the explanation of why the Platform SDK is bad.
> Is there some other solution proposed to suppress this popup window?
> 
> 					Thanks,
> 						Lou
> 
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Dr. Ted Ralphs
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