From 952416c596b776a34a990d35150730c833d27983 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Emmas <john@creativepost.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 14:06:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Accommodate some changes to 'ssize_t' in VS2019

In more recent versions of MSVC, ssize_t equates to 'long' (for a 32-bit build) or '__int64' (for 64-bit)
---
 libs/midi++2/mmc.cc     |  3 +++
 libs/pbd/pbd/msvc_pbd.h | 11 ++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libs/midi++2/mmc.cc b/libs/midi++2/mmc.cc
index 8a7e175cdd..10fffbe39e 100644
--- a/libs/midi++2/mmc.cc
+++ b/libs/midi++2/mmc.cc
@@ -32,8 +32,11 @@
 #include "midi++/parser.h"
 
 #ifndef __INT_MAX__   // 'ssize_t' won't be defined yet
+                      // (except in later versions of MSVC)
+#if !defined (_MSC_VER) || (_MSC_VER < 1800)
 typedef long ssize_t;
 #endif
+#endif
 
 using namespace std;
 using namespace MIDI;
diff --git a/libs/pbd/pbd/msvc_pbd.h b/libs/pbd/pbd/msvc_pbd.h
index d631e5532c..b4ad77363f 100644
--- a/libs/pbd/pbd/msvc_pbd.h
+++ b/libs/pbd/pbd/msvc_pbd.h
@@ -154,11 +154,20 @@ typedef int (FAR PBDEXTN_APICALLTYPE *CYGINIT_API)(unsigned int);
 
 #ifndef _SSIZE_T_
 #define _SSIZE_T_
-typedef long _ssize_t;
+
+#ifdef   SSIZE_T
+typedef  SSIZE_T  _ssize_t;
+#elif _MSC_VER < 1800
+typedef  long     _ssize_t;
+#else
+#include <basetsd.h>
+typedef  LONG_PTR _ssize_t; // AFAICT - LONG_PTR is equivalent to 'long' in Win32 and '__int64' in Win64 !!
+#endif
 
 #ifndef _NO_OLDNAMES
 typedef _ssize_t ssize_t;
 #endif
+
 #endif /* ! _SSIZE_T_ */
 
 typedef unsigned int nfds_t;