GMail ate the bottom half of my message... again. :( Seems like there's a strange bug in copy/pasting, I better compose long emails in TextMate from now on. Here's a "reconstruction": On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@xxxxxxxxx> 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 > + if (stdin) \ > + _setmode(_fileno(stdin), _O_BINARY); \ > + if (stdout) \ > + _setmode(_fileno(stdout), _O_BINARY); \ > + if (stderr) \ > + _setmode(_fileno(stderr), _O_BINARY); \ Also, at least mingw/gcc that is coming with msysgit thinks that stdin/stdout/stderr always evaluate to true, and this check causes problems as well. In the end, your patch should become something like this: diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c index fd642e4..807996c 100644 --- a/compat/mingw.c +++ b/compat/mingw.c @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ #include "../strbuf.h" extern int hide_dotfiles; -unsigned int _CRT_fmode = _O_BINARY; static int err_win_to_posix(DWORD winerr) { diff --git a/compat/mingw.h b/compat/mingw.h index cfbcc0e..46473c5 100644 --- a/compat/mingw.h +++ b/compat/mingw.h @@ -244,6 +244,10 @@ char **env_setenv(char **env, const char *name); static int mingw_main(); \ int main(int argc, const char **argv) \ { \ + _fmode = _O_BINARY; \ + _setmode(_fileno(stdin), _O_BINARY); \ + _setmode(_fileno(stdout), _O_BINARY); \ + _setmode(_fileno(stderr), _O_BINARY); \ argv[0] = xstrdup(_pgmptr); \ return mingw_main(argc, argv); \ } \ I can't check if it compiles with MSVC, but with msysgit it compiles fine. Tests pass at least up to 3400 (haven't finished the rest). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html