Re: Making CVS 1.11.6 on Windows/C++.NET produces linker-error "unresolved external _locate_rcs"

[Reggie Big Monkey a.k.a. Redge]

Tobias Wirnsberger <tobias.wirnsberger@sicad.de> wrote in message 
news:<mailman.7467.1054910086.21513.bug-cvs@gnu.org>...
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> I downloaded the latest stable release 1.11.6 and tried to build the
> Windows-client using nmake /f cvsnt.mak  I have Visual Studio.NET 2003
> installed on  Windows 2000. Compilation went all right, but the linker
> failed on an unresolved external  "_locate_rcs". After looking around
> for a while, I pasted the two functions locate_file_in_dir and
> locate_rcs from the file .../src/filesubr.c to
> .../windows-NT/filesubr.c. After this, the nmake ran without problems.
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I had exactly the same problem, and a very similar solution.

I also tried version 1.12.1 and had different problems (with
compilation this time). I'll post later about it if necessary.