On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:07:33 -0500, Steve Boyd sboydlns@gmail.com wrote:

I got an error while compiling universal.c with Visual Studio. The compiler didn't like the following line:

 device_data_t devdata = {0};

in dowork().

I changed it to:

 device_data_t devdata;
 memchr(&devdata, 0, sizeof(devdata));

and now everything compiles cleanly.

Thought you should know.

This is standard C syntax to initialize all struct fields to zero. You can find a nice explanation here:

http://ex-parrot.com/~chris/random/initialise.html

But it's very possible the msvc compiler doesn't support it. Getting the msvc compiler to work isn't straightforward. I use a few C99 features, which are not supported at all. The workaround I used is to build the C code as C++. Note that the msvc project file is provided as a convenience, but it's not maintained equally well as the autotools build system.

The recommended build system on windows is mingw, but with some extra (manual) effort msvc should work too.