Re: Cleaning the Win build

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 03:16:23PM +0200, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> > but I do understand people that prefer to use MingW. Obviously, we can
> > make a few changes to improve our support for MingW. Since you have been
> > looking into the problem, could you please produce a patch that fixes
> > the issue and/or improves the existing header organization?
>
> First we need to lay down some ground-rules for the Win-build. I suggest:
>
> 1. No local-headers should include other local-headers more than one level deep.
>
> 2. No local-headers should need to redefine things or define things twice (e.g.
>   *win.h files with '#define HAVE_OPENSSL' in 4 places).
>
> 3. All system-headers should be included ahead of local ones. 

These rules look fine to me.

David Fifield
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