Re: Gnu Emacs and Vista ASLR feature

[Jason Rumney]

David Kastrup wrote:
> Note that "23.0.50" must be a CVS version from half a year ago or so,
> probably from the unicode2 branch before the merge.  The current
> informal version number is 23.0.60.
>   

Sometime last year someone made an effort to get Emacs compiling with 
MSVC 2003 and 2005. The compilation errors were fixed at that time, and 
Emacs was able to link with MSVC 2003, but not 2005 due to no longer 
shipping with a single threaded C library. The statically linked 
multithreaded library is missing a number of functions and globals that 
Emacs needs, and the dynamically linked multithreaded library causes 
conflicts between the Emacs malloc and the library's malloc 
implementations. If MSVC 2008 is again shipping a statically linked 
single threaded runtime, or if the statically linked multi-threaded 
runtime has the missing functions and globals added back in, then it 
might be expected to work. If the build files have been hacked to link 
dynamically, then problems are to be expected.