1 Here are some of the cpp macros used, together with some short explanation
2 of their use. Feel free to add more macros and more categories.
3 Most of these are from config.in, so it's probably better to put the
4 explanations in that file. Ideally, everything would be defined and
5 documented in config.in, and this file would not be necessary.
8 ** Distinguishing OSes **
12 CYGWIN Compiling the Cygwin port.
16 MSDOS Compiling the MS-DOS port.
18 __DJGPP_MINOR__ Minor version number of the DJGPP library; used only in msdos.c and dosfns.c.
19 DOS_NT Compiling for either the MS-DOS or native MS-Windows port.
20 WINDOWSNT Compiling the native MS-Windows (W32) port.
21 __MINGW32__ Compiling the W32 port with the MinGW or MinGW-w64 ports of GCC.
22 MINGW_W64 Compiling the W32 port with the MinGW-w64 port of GCC.
23 DARWIN_OS Compiling on macOS or pure Darwin (and using s/darwin.h).
28 ** Distinguishing GUIs **
30 HAVE_NTGUI Use the native W32 GUI for windows, frames, menus&scrollbars.
31 HAVE_NS Use the NeXT/OpenStep/Cocoa UI under macOS or GNUstep.
32 NS_IMPL_GNUSTEP Compile support for GNUstep implementation of NS GUI API.
33 NS_IMPL_COCOA Compile support for Cocoa (Apple) implementation of NS GUI API.
34 HAVE_X11 Compile support for the X11 GUI.
35 HAVE_X_WINDOWS Compile support for X Window system
36 (It looks like, nowadays, if HAVE_X11 is set, HAVE_X_WINDOWS must
37 be, and vice versa. At least, this is true for configure, and
38 msdos; not sure about nt.)
42 USE_LUCID Use the Lucid toolkit for menus&scrollbars. Requires HAVE_X11.
43 USE_MOTIF Use the Motif toolkit for menus&scrollbars. Requires HAVE_X11.
44 USE_GTK Use the Gtk toolkit for menus&scrollbars. Requires HAVE_X11.
48 FRAME_TERMCAP_P A tty (character terminal) frame.
49 FRAME_X_P A frame on X Window system.
50 FRAME_MSDOS_P An MS-DOS frame (used only by the DOS port).
51 FRAME_W32_P A frame using native MS-Windows GUI.
52 FRAME_WINDOW_P A GUI frame (like X, w32, etc.)
54 ** Support for accessing other processes on the system **
56 HAVE_PROCFS The /proc filesystem is supported.
58 ** Compile-time options **
60 REL_ALLOC Compile in the relocatable memory allocator ralloc.c.
61 SYSTEM_MALLOC Use the system library's malloc.
62 subprocesses System can use subprocesses (for M-x shell for example).
63 Defined by default, only MSDOS undefines it.
64 DEBUG_LISP_OBJECT_TYPE Define it in lisp.h enable compile time checks
67 ** System specific macros
76 USER_FULL_NAME If defined, overrides the default pw->pw_gecos for
77 getting at the full user name. Only MSDOS overrides the default.
79 ** Miscellaneous defines. Some of these might not be used in the code
80 anymore, so they can be removed.
83 BROKEN_DATAGRAM_SOCKETS
85 BROKEN_GET_CURRENT_DIR_NAME
86 BROKEN_PTY_READ_AFTER_EAGAIN
96 GC_MARK_SECONDARY_STACK
115 HAVE_DBUS_TYPE_IS_VALID
116 HAVE_DBUS_VALIDATE_BUS_NAME
117 HAVE_DBUS_VALIDATE_INTERFACE
118 HAVE_DBUS_VALIDATE_MEMBER
119 HAVE_DBUS_VALIDATE_PATH
120 HAVE_DBUS_WATCH_GET_UNIX_FD
122 HAVE_DECL_LOCALTIME_R
128 HAVE_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST
130 HAVE_DECL___SYS_SIGLIST
154 HAVE_GETOPT_LONG_ONLY
162 HAVE_GET_CURRENT_DIR_NAME
170 HAVE_GTK_ADJUSTMENT_GET_PAGE_SIZE
171 HAVE_GTK_DIALOG_GET_ACTION_AREA
172 HAVE_GTK_FILE_SELECTION_NEW
174 HAVE_GTK_MULTIDISPLAY
175 HAVE_GTK_ORIENTABLE_SET_ORIENTATION
176 HAVE_GTK_WIDGET_GET_MAPPED
177 HAVE_GTK_WIDGET_GET_SENSITIVE
178 HAVE_GTK_WIDGET_GET_WINDOW
179 HAVE_GTK_WIDGET_SET_HAS_WINDOW
180 HAVE_GTK_WINDOW_SET_HAS_RESIZE_GRIP
187 HAVE_KERBEROSIV_KRB_H
189 HAVE_KRB5_ERROR_E_TEXT
193 HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
211 HAVE_MACHINE_SOUNDCARD_H
213 HAVE_MAGICKEXPORTIMAGEPIXELS
214 HAVE_MAGICKMERGEIMAGELAYERS
226 HAVE_MULTILINGUAL_MENU
231 HAVE_OTF_GET_VARIATION_GLYPHS
232 HAVE_PERSONALITY_ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE
238 HAVE_PSTAT_GETDYNAMIC
259 HAVE_SIGNED_${GLTYPE}
260 HAVE_SIGNED_SIG_ATOMIC_T
280 HAVE_STRUCT_ERA_ENTRY
281 HAVE_STRUCT_IFREQ_IFR_ADDR
282 HAVE_STRUCT_IFREQ_IFR_ADDR_SA_LEN
283 HAVE_STRUCT_IFREQ_IFR_BROADADDR
284 HAVE_STRUCT_IFREQ_IFR_FLAGS
285 HAVE_STRUCT_IFREQ_IFR_HWADDR
286 HAVE_STRUCT_IFREQ_IFR_NETMASK
287 HAVE_STRUCT_NLIST_N_UN_N_NAME
288 HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_ATIMENSEC
289 HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_ATIMESPEC_TV_NSEC
290 HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_ATIM_ST__TIM_TV_NSEC
291 HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_ATIM_TV_NSEC
292 HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_BIRTHTIMENSEC
293 HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_BIRTHTIMESPEC_TV_NSEC
294 HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_BIRTHTIM_TV_NSEC
296 HAVE_STRUCT_TM_TM_ZONE
310 HAVE_SYS_SYSTEMINFO_H
327 HAVE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT
348 HAVE_XSCREENNUMBEROFSCREEN
349 HAVE_XSCREENRESOURCESTRING
356 HAVE___BUILTIN_UNWIND_INIT
357 HAVE___EXECUTABLE_START
380 SIGNALS_VIA_CHARACTERS
382 SYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA
391 USE_TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
439 srandom (conf_post.h may undo)
490 execvp (also emacsclient.c [WINDOWSNT])
525 wait (also movemail.c [WINDOWSNT])