Building under Visual Studio 2015 --

[Thomas Søndergaard]

On 3 May 2016 at 11:11, Chris Kingsley <ckingsley at alteryx.com> wrote:

> Is there expected to be a KFW release with all the build fixes needed for
> Visual Studio 2015? I see there have been many changes working toward that,
> but there isn't yet a KFW later than 4.0.1 with everything rolled up. I am
> cherry picking from the updates to get what we need, but it would be nice
> to have an official release.
>
> Incidentally, I see a problem in src/windows/leash/out2con.cpp - on line
> 101 it has:
>     // now slam the allocated FILE's _flag to zero to mark it as free
> without
>     // actually closing the os file handle and pipe
>     fp->_flag = 0;
>
> I am getting a compilation error on that, because the FILE struct isn't
> declared to have a _flag field. This is only needed, according to the usage
> message, to attach a console for debugging, so I am going to kludge around
> the problem.
>

I've kludged around that one too. The FILE struct shall be treated as
opaque, so the code above is a little suspect. I wonder if it is worth
fixing or if the facility can simply be removed?