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Subject: Re: Compile error on MinGW

From: Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: libftdi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 13:26:39 +0800
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 8:25 PM <drfiemost@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Found out that this happens because I use WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
> > > which prevents the definition of struct timeval.
> > > I can workaround this problem but think that it should be handled in the
> > > ftdi.h header,
> > > either undefining WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN before windows.h is included or by
> > > explicitly including Winsock2.h.
> > > What do you think?
> >
> > Just wondering which MinGW version you are using?  I had no problem building
> > libftdi under MSYS2 distribution of MinGW-w64 (32/64bit).
> >
>
> I'm on the 64 bit version of MSYS2/MinGW64, using the 
> mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-libftdi 1.5-1 package.

I see. In this case, you use WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN in your code and that is
causing problems with ftdi.h header.

I think we should not change ftdi.h but rather your code may need to have
the workaround.

--
Xiaofan

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