Re: bug#25633: porting gzip to Visual Studio 2015 failed due to redesign of CRT

[Bruno Haible]

Kees Dekker wrote:
> > I tried to compile gzip with visual studio 2015. Unfortunately, a few files
> > could not be ported. Microsoft has redesigned the core CRT which affects
> > the visibility of (hidden/internals) of e.g. the FILE type. None of the
> > internals of the FILE type is not visible anymore (contrary to Visual
> > Studio 2013 and before). This affects e.g. freadingc, fpurge.c, fseeko.c,
> > fseterr.c.

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.

Bruno