From: "U.Nakamura" <usa@...>
Date: 2005-12-28T23:54:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems building 1.8.4 with VS8 C++ Express Edition (cl 14.00)

Hello,

In message "Re: Problems building 1.8.4 with VS8 C++ Express Edition (cl 14.00)"
    on Dec.28,2005 00:22:17, <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
| Fair enough. I'm still stuck, but it appears to be in openssl this
| time (which I have not downloaded and compiled at this point, so if
| that's the cause, that's fine; I'll go ahead and do both openssl and
| zlib compiles using this compiler).

I've forgotten another patch which is already applied to HEAD.
I hope this helps you finally.

Index: file.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/ruby/file.c,v
retrieving revision 1.169.2.41
diff -u -1 -p -r1.169.2.41 file.c
--- file.c	21 Dec 2005 09:20:15 -0000	1.169.2.41
+++ file.c	28 Dec 2005 14:53:41 -0000
@@ -886,2 +886,5 @@ eaccess(path, mode)
 #else
+# if _MSC_VER >= 1400
+    mode &= 6;
+# endif
     return access(path, mode);

Regards.
-- 
U.Nakamura <usa@garbagecollect.jp>