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| -rw-r--r-- | src/liblzma/api/lzma.h | 18 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/liblzma/api/lzma.h b/src/liblzma/api/lzma.h index 72c51b24..ce675a78 100644 --- a/src/liblzma/api/lzma.h +++ b/src/liblzma/api/lzma.h @@ -82,12 +82,20 @@ # if !defined(UINT32_C) || !defined(UINT64_C) \ || !defined(UINT32_MAX) || !defined(UINT64_MAX) /* - * MSVC has no C99 support, and thus it cannot be used to - * compile liblzma. The liblzma API has to still be usable - * from MSVC, so we need to define the required standard - * integer types here. + * MSVC versions older than 2013 have no C99 support, and + * thus they cannot be used to compile liblzma. Using an + * existing liblzma.dll with old MSVC can work though(*), + * but we need to define the required standard integer + * types here in a MSVC-specific way. + * + * (*) If you do this, the existing liblzma.dll probably uses + * a different runtime library than your MSVC-built + * application. Mixing runtimes is generally bad, but + * in this case it should work as long as you avoid + * the few rarely-needed liblzma functions that allocate + * memory and expect the caller to free it using free(). */ -# if defined(_WIN32) && defined(_MSC_VER) +# if defined(_WIN32) && defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER < 1800 typedef unsigned __int8 uint8_t; typedef unsigned __int32 uint32_t; typedef unsigned __int64 uint64_t; |