diff --git a/id3lib/src/tag_file.cpp b/id3lib/src/tag_file.cpp

index 09461fc..6b64235 100644

--- a/id3lib/src/tag_file.cpp

+++ b/id3lib/src/tag_file.cpp

@@ -242,8 +242,8 @@ size_t RenderV2ToFile(const ID3_TagImpl& tag, fstream& file)

     strcpy(sTempFile, filename.c_str());

     strcat(sTempFile, sTmpSuffix.c_str());

-#if ((defined(__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ >= 3  ) || !defined(HAVE_MKSTEMP))

-    // This section is for Windows folk && gcc 3.x folk

+#if !defined(HAVE_MKSTEMP)

+    // This section is for Windows folk

     fstream tmpOut;

     createFile(sTempFile, tmpOut);

@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ size_t RenderV2ToFile(const ID3_TagImpl& tag, fstream& file)

       tmpOut.write((char *)tmpBuffer, nBytes);

     }

-#else //((defined(__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ >= 3  ) || !defined(HAVE_MKSTEMP))

+#else //!defined(HAVE_MKSTEMP)

     // else we gotta make a temp file, copy the tag into it, copy the

     // rest of the old file after the tag, delete the old file, rename

@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ size_t RenderV2ToFile(const ID3_TagImpl& tag, fstream& file)

       //ID3_THROW_DESC(ID3E_NoFile, "couldn't open temp file");

     }

-    ofstream tmpOut(fd);

+    ofstream tmpOut(sTempFile);

     if (!tmpOut)

     {

       tmpOut.close();

@@ -285,14 +285,14 @@ size_t RenderV2ToFile(const ID3_TagImpl& tag, fstream& file)

     uchar tmpBuffer[BUFSIZ];

     while (file)

     {

-      file.read(tmpBuffer, BUFSIZ);

+      file.read((char *)tmpBuffer, BUFSIZ);

       size_t nBytes = file.gcount();

-      tmpOut.write(tmpBuffer, nBytes);

+      tmpOut.write((char *)tmpBuffer, nBytes);

     }

     close(fd); //closes the file

-#endif ////((defined(__GNUC__) && __GNUC__ >= 3  ) || !defined(HAVE_MKSTEMP))

+#endif ////!defined(HAVE_MKSTEMP)

     tmpOut.close();

     file.close();