Guys, Sorry I'm coming to this discussion a bit late. Win XPx64 SP2, VS2008 Pro, XEmacs-21.5.29, native build without cygwin I've struggled with this for a while, but I made a good go of it last night and I've a couple of observations I'd like to share before I do anything else. [1] unicode-encapsulate. The only way I could get this to run properly was to go to the Windows SDK dir (I'm using v6.0A) and remove all the decorations from a load of functions in 14 header files. I'm referring here to __in, __out_, __in_opt, etc. I'm sure with some tweaking of make-mswin-unicode.pl a more elegant solution could be achieved. Or have I missed something? [2] In order to make the SHQUERYRBINFO struct visible from ShellAPI.h, I had to add a couple of defs to xemacs.mak (these were mentioned earlier in this thread). -DNTDDI_VERSION=NTDDI_WINXPSP2 -D_WIN32_WINNT=_WIN32_WINNT_WINXP [3] dumper.c (2648) qxeGetModuleFileName had an unwanted cast. /* cchpathsize = qxeGetModuleFileName (NULL, (Extbyte *) exe_path, bufsize); */ cchpathsize = qxeGetModuleFileName (NULL, exe_path, bufsize); [4] intl-auto-encap-win32.c had a few wrapper functions which used a wide type in the interface and then tried to use this wide type in a narrow call. Nasty hack used to get this to limp along. int qxeMessageBoxIndirect (CONST MSGBOXPARAMSW * lpmbp) { if (XEUNICODE_P) return MessageBoxIndirectW (lpmbp); else return -1; /* MessageBoxIndirectA (lpmbp); */ } As this file is autogened by make-mswin-unicode.pl, my hacks are plain nasty. [5] win32.c (165) qxeGetModuleFileName was missing a cast. (TBH, I've not type checked this :-( - there's clearly a type issue here though between Extbyte and WCH) [6] The optional jpeg lib wouldn't link. I took the easy option and downloaded another prebuilt one for VS2008. This got things to compile and link, but I've still to resolve the makeinfo stage (not a big worry). Firstly, have I missed something? Is there something I could do which would resolve these issues or, as seems, is building using MS tools waaay down the list of things to do? It looks like a config step is needed to set the NTDDI_VERSION and _WIN32_WINNT. make-mswin-unicode.pl needs a hand filtering some of those header files however, I'm not 100% on the types used and interfaces generated, so there may be some other work required here involving dumper.c, win32.c (and intl-auto-encap-win32.c). Questions? Comments? Education & instruction? ;-) Thanks. -R. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta