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Re: Removing WIN32 dependencies

From: Jamie Lokier <jamie_at_shareable.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:15:23 +0100

Yang Tse wrote:
> >What do you mean by "a Windows native compiler"? There are more than
> >one, especially if you count different versions.
>
> Yep, that was too generic. ;-)
>
> I meant, any compiler which is just using header files provided with
> Microsoft's Platform SDK, which in the end are the ones which document
> the Windows run time libraries. Since the library or executable is
> supposed to run under Windows with the only support of Windows's own
> libraries.

Thanks. That still leaves the question of version(s) of
Microsoft's Platform SDK.

I would be quite surprised if the set of relevant header files, and
any function/macro workaround definitions needed, were exactly the
same for all versions.

-- Jamie
Received on 2006-07-21