[MOAB-dev] MOAB build on windows

[Jason Kraftcheck]

James Porter wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 15:26 -0500, Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
>> #ifdef _MSC_VER
>> typedef unsigned _int16 uint16_t
>> #endif
> 
> This is already in MBSysUtil.cpp, but the "hard" part is dealing with
> non-default configurations on Windows, such as #defining
> MOAB_FORCE_64_BIT_HANDLES. That'll probably fail since it uses int64_t
> in MBEntityHandle.h, which isn't defined on Windows either. It looks
> like everything that #includes stdint.h also includes MBEntityHandle.h,
> so I think we should consolidate the inclusions/typedefs to that file.
> 
>> #ifdef _MSC_VER
>> #define finite _finite
>> #endif
> 
> This also runs the risk of us redefining C99 extensions piecemeal. We
> can probably do this for now, but it's something we should keep in mind
> if we start using more C99 features.
> 

It may also work to define 'POSIX' on Windows.  I think its something 
like /DPOSIX but I'm not sure.

- jason