# HG changeset patch
# User Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
# Date 1172884727 0
# Node ID 1af36c639a871b8b40ec47024e847e3aa90c695c
# Parent  ca2c6759e770c6a0c50a9b312e7ae53bf1c4beea
Note added about the Visual Studio 2005 problem.

diff -r ca2c6759e770 -r 1af36c639a87 etc/PROBLEMS
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Sat Mar 03 01:05:49 2007 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Sat Mar 03 01:18:47 2007 +0000
@@ -2439,6 +2439,19 @@
 defines the `assert' macro with a trailing semi-colon.  The following
 patch to assert.h should solve this:
 
+*** Building the MS-Windows port with Visual Studio 2005 fails.
+
+Microsoft no longer ships the single threaded version of the C library
+with their compiler, and the multithreaded static library is missing
+some functions that Microsoft have deemed non-threadsafe. The
+dynamically linked C library has all the functions, but there is a
+conflict between the versions of malloc in the DLL and in Emacs, which
+is not resolvable due to the way Windows does dynamic linking.
+
+We recommend the use of the MingW port of GCC for compiling Emacs, as
+not only does it not suffer these problems, but it is also Free
+software like Emacs.
+
 *** include/assert.h.orig	Sun Nov  7 02:41:36 1999
 --- include/assert.h	Mon Jan 29 11:49:10 2001
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