Hi devlist,

I've been playing around with a signal external, trying to compile under windows XP with MSVC6 (Oh, how I love unix...) and with various combinations of the #ifdef  defines at the top of the .c file I get:

Syntax error : missing ';' before 'type'
and undeclared identifiers if the final #endif is after the #else statement,

Unexpected end of file found if there is no final #endif (as you'd expect),

Mismatched #if/#endif pair if the #endif is at the end of the file.

All other configurations (leaving out the #ifdef NT block, also changing _MSC_VER to NT) result in the syntax error error.

Now, I know I'm being lazy, not finding out what the blocks of code do. Could anyone be bothered to explain this to me? If I understood what these are doing then I might be able to troubleshoot more efficiently than hit-and miss.
And...is anyone out there still compiling externs with MSVC??? Hans???

Best,
Ed