Mateusz Loskot pointed out that VC++ 9.0 (2008) has the pollfd struct and

defines in the SDK somehow differently so we have to add a define to the
config-win32.h file to make select.h compile nicely.

CHANGES

@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
                                   Changelog
 
 
+Daniel S (17 Dec 2007)
+- Mateusz Loskot pointed out that VC++ 9.0 (2008) has the pollfd struct and
+  defines in the SDK somehow differently so we have to add a define to the
+  config-win32.h file to make select.h compile nicely.
+
 Daniel S (13 Dec 2007)
 - David Wright filed bug report #1849764
   (http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1849764) with an included fix. He

RELEASE-NOTES

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ This release includes the following bugfixes:
  o SSL session id caching
  o POST with callback over proxy requiring NTLM or Digest
  o Expect: 100-continue flaw on re-used connection with POSTs
+ o build fix for VC++ 9.0 (2008)
 
 This release includes the following known bugs:
 
@@ -56,6 +57,6 @@ advice from friends like these:
  Dan Fandrich, Gisle Vanem, Toby Peterson, Yang Tse, Daniel Black,
  Robin Johnson, Michal Marek, Ates Goral, Andres Garcia, Rob Crittenden,
  Emil Romanus, Alessandro Vesely, Ray Pekowski, Spacen Jasset, Andrew Moise,
- Gilles Blanc, David Wright
+ Gilles Blanc, David Wright, Mateusz Loskot
  
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)

lib/config-win32.h

@@ -353,6 +353,14 @@
 #define _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE 1
 #endif
 
+/* Define to make select.h work fine on VC++ 9.0 (2008) */
+#if defined(_MSC_VER) && (_MSC_VER >= 1500)
+/* The poll struct and associated defines are present in the Windows SDK v6.0
+   that comes with this version... */
+#define HAVE_STRUCT_POLLFD 1
+#endif
+
+
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