Is there some recipe for testing the 0002 patch? Can it be tested on an MinGW environment, or does it need to use the MicroSoft supplied compilers?
I used MSVC. It ought to work with MinGW, I think, although you might need to tweak the Makefiles to make it compile. Certainly we should eventually make it work, before committing. If you try it out, let me know how it goes.
I couldn't it to work when I tried it long time ago, but I didn't record the error and it may have been a failure to use the correct arguments to the configure. I think it was taking a path through all the #ifdef that resulted in a function never getting defined.
