On Jul 7 21:19, JonY wrote:
On 7/7/2010 20:58, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 02:39:19PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Oh, and, talking about /opt or /usr, I'd prefer the above /usr/mingw*
sysroot idea. However, I don't like the idea in the least to keep
two different versions of w32api around. It's one target, so we should
have one set of headers only. Right? Wrong? None of that?
Unfortunately, it sounds like we've stepped into the middle of a dispute
between the mingw folks and the mingw64 folks. Maybe the best thing for
us to do would be to decide to use only one or the other but not both.
cgf
Here are some of the technical issues.
[...]
As for mingw-w64 headers API, it does not support anything lower
than XP, Win2K is not supported, different from mingw.org's Win9X
compatibility.
How do you do that? The XP functionality is a superset of the W2K
functionality, which in turn is a superset of the NT4 functionality.
So, in theory, headers supporting XP should support any earlier
system(*).
Corinna
(*) Note that I ignore 95/98/Me deliberately since they deserve to be
forgotten.