MinGW not defining WIN32, error in preprocessor directives

Question

I am using mingw32-make to compile a project to Windows, which depends on a project called libevent2. I keep receiving this error -

util.h:69:25: fatal error         


        

Answer 1

You should use _WIN32 and may also want to check for __CYGWIN__

#if defined _WIN32 || defined __CYGWIN__