Neither MinGW or Cygwin versions of winerror.h work if used alone, so on either of these platforms include the full windows.h. Move reporting of configuration to a separate config_test.cpp program, and expand the coverage to report more macros.

test/config_test.cpp

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+//  error_code_test.cpp  ---------------------------------------------------------------//
+
+//  Copyright Beman Dawes 2014
+
+//  Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
+//  See http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt
+
+//  See library home page at http://www.boost.org/libs/system
+
+#include <boost/system/config.hpp>
+#include <iostream>
+
+using std::cout;
+using std::endl;
+
+int main()
+{
+#ifdef BOOST_WINDOWS_API
+  std::cout << "BOOST_WINDOWS_API is defined" << std::endl;
+#else
+  std::cout << "BOOST_WINDOWS_API is not defined" << std::endl;
+#endif
+#ifdef _MSC_VER
+  std::cout << "_MSC_VER is defined as " <<  _MSC_VER << std::endl;
+#else
+  std::cout << "_MSC_VER is not defined" << std::endl;
+#endif
+#ifdef  __CYGWIN__
+  std::cout << "__CYGWIN__ is defined" << std::endl;
+#else
+  std::cout << "__CYGWIN__ is not defined" << std::endl;
+#endif
+#ifdef __MINGW32__
+  std::cout << "__MINGW32__ is defined" << std::endl;
+#else
+  std::cout << "__MINGW32__ is not defined" << std::endl;
+#endif
+#ifdef BOOST_POSIX_API
+  std::cout << "BOOST_POSIX_API is defined" << std::endl;
+#else
+  std::cout << "BOOST_POSIX_API is not defined" << std::endl;
+#endif
+#ifdef BOOST_PLAT_WINDOWS_DESKTOP
+  std::cout << "BOOST_PLAT_WINDOWS_DESKTOP is defined" << std::endl;
+#else
+  std::cout << "BOOST_PLAT_WINDOWS_DESKTOP is not defined" << std::endl;
+#endif
+#ifdef BOOST_NO_ANSI_APIS
+  std::cout << "BOOST_NO_ANSI_APIS is defined" << std::endl;
+#else
+  std::cout << "BOOST_NO_ANSI_APIS is not defined" << std::endl;
+#endif
+#ifdef BOOST_NO_CXX11_NOEXCEPT
+  std::cout << "BOOST_NO_CXX11_NOEXCEPT is defined" << std::endl;
+#else
+  std::cout << "BOOST_NO_CXX11_NOEXCEPT is not defined" << std::endl;
+#endif
+#ifdef BOOST_NO_CXX11_EXPLICIT_CONVERSION_OPERATORS
+  std::cout << "BOOST_NO_CXX11_EXPLICIT_CONVERSION_OPERATORS is defined" << std::endl;
+#else
+  std::cout << "BOOST_NO_CXX11_EXPLICIT_CONVERSION_OPERATORS is not defined" << std::endl;
+#endif
+  return 0;
+}