gnucash master: Fix compile failures on latest version of MinGW.

[Geert Janssens]

On Saturday 23 May 2015 10:34:44 Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Friday 22 May 2015 23:59:44 John Ralls wrote:
> > Updated	 via  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/82329272
> > (commit) from  https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/847e2c27
> > (commit)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > commit 82329272048863c21ff286b5e79516896fab6db3
> > Author: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> > Date:   Fri May 22 19:50:25 2015 -0700
> > 
> >     Fix compile failures on latest version of MinGW.
> > 
> > Summary of changes:
> >  src/app-utils/guile-util.c                       | 5 +++++
> >  src/backend/dbi/Makefile.am                      | 1 +
> >  src/backend/dbi/gnc-backend-dbi.c                | 5 +++++
> >  src/backend/xml/gnc-backend-xml.c                | 5 +++++
> >  src/backend/xml/io-example-account.c             | 5 +++++
> >  src/backend/xml/io-gncxml-v2.c                   | 5 +++++
> >  src/core-utils/binreloc.c                        | 5 +++++
> >  src/core-utils/gnc-filepath-utils.c              | 5 +++++
> >  src/core-utils/gnc-gkeyfile-utils.c              | 5 +++++
> >  src/engine/Query.c                               | 5 +++++
> >  src/engine/Split.c                               | 5 +++++
> >  src/engine/Transaction.c                         | 5 +++++
> >  src/gnome/assistant-hierarchy.c                  | 5 +++++
> >  src/html/gnc-html-webkit.c                       | 6 +++++-
> >  src/html/gnc-html.c                              | 5 +++++
> >  src/import-export/aqb/assistant-ab-initial.c     | 5 +++++
> >  src/import-export/aqb/gnc-file-aqb-import.c      | 5 +++++
> >  src/import-export/csv-imp/gnc-csv-model.c        | 4 ++++
> >  src/import-export/qif-imp/assistant-qif-import.c | 5 +++++
> >  src/libqof/qof/guid.cpp                          | 5 +++++
> >  src/libqof/qof/qoflog.cpp                        | 8 +++++++-
> >  src/libqof/qof/qofsession.cpp                    | 5 +++++
> >  22 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
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> 
> John,
> 
> Thanks for working on this.
> 
> This patch is puzzling me. I see you are adding this code snippet to
> several source files:
> 
> #include <platform.h>
> #if PLATFORM(WINDOWS)
> #include <windows.h>
> #endif
> 
> What's particular about these files that they require this added
> snippet ?

Follow up on my own question: I found yesterday's conversation between 
jralls and warlord on irc on this topic:
http://lists.gnucash.org/logs/2015/05/2015-05-22.html#T21:56:25

> 
> And secondly, it surprises me that these changes were not needed on
> the maint branch. The build server managed to build gnucash maint
> without issues on May 20, also using the new mingw-rt package.
> 
This remains a mystery so far.

Geert