From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2008-10-08T12:40:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Making/Compiling Gems on Windows with MinGW

Hi,

At Wed, 8 Oct 2008 02:55:48 +0900,
Cayce Balara wrote in [ruby-talk:317108]:
> em.cpp(1193) : error C2374: 'i' : redefinition; multiple initialization
>         em.cpp(1186) : see declaration of 'i'

It's a famous pitfall of VC6.

A workaround is:

#if defined __cplusplus && defined _MSC_VER && _MSC_VER == 1200
#define for if (1) for
#endif

-- 
Nobu Nakada