From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-12-26T14:02:41+09:00
Subject: Re: The second coming of Santa Claus (Re: [ANN] ruby 1.8.2)

Hi,

At Sun, 26 Dec 2004 02:36:55 +0900,
Shashank Date wrote in [ruby-talk:124452]:
> I could get rid of them by adding this script to win32\win32.c:
> 
> 
>    #if (_MSC_VER >= 1300) && (WINVER < 0x0500)
>    //VC7 or later, building with pre-VC7 runtime libraries

It is invalid in general.

>     extern long _ftol( double ); //defined by VC6 C libs
>     extern long _ftol2( double dblSource ) { return _ftol( dblSource ); }
>    #endif
> 
> 
> Is this the correct way?

No.  You should fail to install a runtime library or use wrong
one.

-- 
Nobu Nakada