# building HEAD on windows

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- Started by Frank M. Kromann on 2006-04-20T03:43:28+00:00
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## #22894 — Frank M. Kromann — 2006-04-20T03:43:28+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/22894#22894

Hi Nuno,

I'm working on a fix (actually I have been for a while but my time has
been limited) and I just commited the fix to ext/unicode/config.w32.

I'll continue working on the other fix tomorrow, unless someone get's
there first.

- Frank

> Hi,
> 
> I'm having some troubles building latest HEAD on windows.
> One of the problems is fixed with the patch attatched.
> 
> The other is more problematic. I think Visual Studio is having some
problems 
> with macro expansions. Checkout the errors:
> 
> ext\standard\file.c(1052) : error C2172: '_to_zstr' : actual parameter
is 
> not a pointer : parameter 1
> ext\standard\file.c(1113) : error C2172: '_to_zstr' : actual parameter
is 
> not a pointer : parameter 1
> ext\standard\file.c(1130) : error C2172: '_to_zstr' : actual parameter
is 
> not a pointer : parameter 1
> ext\standard\file.c(1192) : error C2172: '_to_zstr' : actual parameter
is 
> not a pointer : parameter 1
> ext\standard\file.c(2059) : error C2172: '_to_zstr' : actual parameter
is 
> not a pointer : parameter 1
> ext\standard\file.c(2156) : error C2172: '_to_zstr' : actual parameter
is 
> not a pointer : parameter 1
> 
> After Dmitry's patch to fix the ZSTR() macros, I was already able to
build 
> it, but I don't have luck this time.
> Anyone with same problems?
> 
> Nuno