X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/fbcb41664baa3006deb0a6d27ad1193fa792ea5e..2d120f8391920145647ec10e84629bc21fa9f1bb:/src/msw/dummy.cpp

diff --git a/src/msw/dummy.cpp b/src/msw/dummy.cpp
index 50f5c99001..e03022c6f5 100644
--- a/src/msw/dummy.cpp
+++ b/src/msw/dummy.cpp
@@ -39,8 +39,11 @@
 #pragma hdrstop
 #endif
 
-// Foils optimizations in Visual C++ (see also wx_main.cc)
+// Foils optimizations in Visual C++ (see also app.cpp). Without it,
+// dummy.obj isn't linked and we get a linker error.
+#if defined(_MSC_VER) && defined(__WIN16__)
 char wxDummyChar=0;
+#endif
 
 #if defined(WXUSINGDLL)