Disabling PlaySound() that is included by LibCURL

Question

I've been developing with raylib for quite a while now.

I've gotten libcurl to work, but it doesn't work with windows.h, because of the functions names overriding others.

However, there is a workaround, by mentioning these defines (in curl.h):

#define NOGDICAPMASKS - this disables CC_, LC_, PC_, CP_ TC_ RC_

#define NOVIRTUALKEYCODES - this disables VK_

#define NOWINMESSAGES - this disables WM_ EM_ LB_

#define NOWINSTYLES - this disables WS_, CS_, ES_, LBS_, SBS_, CBS_

#define NOSYSMETRICS - this disables SM_

the list goes on an on...

Keep in mind that I don't need these, I won't use any of these since I'm trying to make it as cross-platform as I can, only libcurl includes these BUT it doesn't use them in any way.

What I am asking is, where could I find a full list of these, and if not a define that STOPS the including of PlaySound(), PlaySoundA(), etc.. and other functions related to sound, since they are interferring with PlaySound() from raylib.

@drescherjm it would seem that libcurl includes `windows.h`, which defines various things that are conflicting with other things that raylib declares using the same names. — Remy Lebeau, Mar 29 '22 at 16:48
Useful info: [How to tame the Windows headers (useful defines)?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1394910/) — Remy Lebeau, Mar 29 '22 at 18:19

Remy Lebeau · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-29T18:22:30.250

The #defines you mention are Win32 SDK defines. They instruct windows.h (more accurately, various other Win32 headers that windows.h itself #includes) to not define/declare various symbols.

The #define you are looking for to omit a declaration of PlaySound(A|W) (in mmsystem.h) is:

#define MMNOSOUND

Here is the full table of defines in mmsystem.h:

 *  Define:         Prevent inclusion of:
 *  --------------  --------------------------------------------------------
 *  MMNODRV         Installable driver support
 *  MMNOSOUND       Sound support
 *  MMNOWAVE        Waveform support
 *  MMNOMIDI        MIDI support
 *  MMNOAUX         Auxiliary audio support
 *  MMNOMIXER       Mixer support
 *  MMNOTIMER       Timer support
 *  MMNOJOY         Joystick support
 *  MMNOMCI         MCI support
 *  MMNOMMIO        Multimedia file I/O support
 *  MMNOMMSYSTEM    General MMSYSTEM functions

Alternatively:

#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN

Which will prevent windows.h from #include'ing a bunch of headers, including mmsystem.h.

Where did WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN come from?

Disabling PlaySound() that is included by LibCURL

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