meson.build: document Windows definitions

239a8332 · Max Kellermann · 8efa5c76 · 239a8332
Commit 239a8332 authored May 19, 2021 by Max Kellermann
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--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -140,10 +140,19 @@ endif

 if is_windows
  common_cppflags += [
-    '-DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN',
+    # enable Windows Vista APIs
    '-DWINVER=0x0600', '-D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0600',
-    '-DSTRICT',
+
+    # enable Unicode support (TCHAR=wchar_t) in the Windows API (macro
+    # "UNICODE) and the C library (macro "_UNICODE")
    '-DUNICODE', '-D_UNICODE',
+
+    # enable strict type checking in the Windows API headers
+    '-DSTRICT',
+
+    # reduce header bloat by disabling obscure and obsolete Windows
+    # APIs
+    '-DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN',
  ]

  subdir('win32')