10 Jul 18 17:10, you wrote to all:

 BR> If I try to build Golded+ (github.com 2018-07-10 Download) with MSVC6 I
 BR> get compile error 2 on line 129 of gdirposx.cpp. If I revert this code
 BR> back to the last source backup I have for Golded+ (sf.net CVS) as "long"
 BR> vice "intptr_t" at

 BR> the beginning of line 129, it works all the way thru with no obvious
 BR> problems reading or writing live messages with the resultant binary
 BR> GedWin.Exe.

 BR> I assume that there is probably more to this error than meets the eye,
 BR> so I will wait for clarification before I distribute anything. 

intptr_t was introduced with the C99 standard which MSVC6 didn't support.

And at some point since MSVC6 was released, Microsoft changed the return value
of _findfirst() from long to intptr_t.

At the start of gdirposx.cpp you could add something like:

#if _MSC_VER <= 1200
typedef long intptr_t;
#endif

Where 1200 is the internal version number for the C/C++ compiler provided with
MSVC6.

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