Re: [PATCH] Remove (_)UNICODE def on Windows in CMakeLists.txt

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, 24 May 2022, Yuyi Wang via GitGitGadget wrote:

> From: Yuyi Wang <Strawberry_Str@hotmail.com>
>
> `UNICODE` and `_UNICODE` are not required when building git on Windows.
> Actually, they should not be predefined at all.
>
> There're 2 evidences that `(_)UNICODE` is supposed to be nonexist:
>
> compat/win32/trace2_win32_process_info.c:83: It uses jw_array_string
> which accepts pe32.szExeFile as const char*.
>
> t/helper/test-drop-caches.c:16: Calling to GetCurrentDirectory with
> Buffer as char*.
>
> The autotools build system never defines `UNICODE` and `_UNICODE` and
> builds on Windows well.

It _is_ true that we make a point of using the `*W()` suffix explicitly to
ensure that we use the Unicode variants of the Win32 API functions.

And it is also true that we do not explicitly define `UNICODE` in
`config.mak.uname`.

Therefore this patch is:

Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Ciao,
Dscho

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>
> Signed-off-by: Yuyi Wang <Strawberry_Str@hotmail.com>
> ---
>     Remove (_)UNICODE def on Windows in CMakeLists.txt
>
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1269%2FBerrysoft%2Fcmake%2Fwincompat-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1269/Berrysoft/cmake/wincompat-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1269
>
>  contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt b/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt
> index 185f56f414f..d52d973ab0d 100644
> --- a/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt
> +++ b/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt
> @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ if(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME STREQUAL "Windows")
>  				_CONSOLE DETECT_MSYS_TTY STRIP_EXTENSION=".exe"  NO_SYMLINK_HEAD UNRELIABLE_FSTAT
>  				NOGDI OBJECT_CREATION_MODE=1 __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=0
>  				USE_NED_ALLOCATOR OVERRIDE_STRDUP MMAP_PREVENTS_DELETE USE_WIN32_MMAP
> -				UNICODE _UNICODE HAVE_WPGMPTR ENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET HAVE_RTLGENRANDOM)
> +				HAVE_WPGMPTR ENSURE_MSYSTEM_IS_SET HAVE_RTLGENRANDOM)
>  	list(APPEND compat_SOURCES
>  		compat/mingw.c
>  		compat/winansi.c
>
> base-commit: 7a3eb286977746bc09a5de7682df0e5a7085e17c
> --
> gitgitgadget
>
>