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Re: GetConsoleWindow


On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 08:11:17AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Cygwin cannot use GetConsoleWindow because it doesn't exist before Windows
> 2000 (W2K).

Again Earnie:  You ever heard of autoload.cc?  Did you have a look
into that?  You know that this file loads functions on demand?  You
know that we're already using functions of more recent Windows versions
_if they are available_?  Cygwin obviously *can* use functions of
2K or NT which aren't available in 9x/Me.  So, what exactly are you
up to?

> We have WINVER set to 0x0400 to avoid the problems you mention.

That doesn't sound like a plan to me.

> doesn't exist pre W2K.  The ChangeLog also needs adjusted to mention the
> autoload.cc changes.

The autoload change was just to fix the GetConsoleWindow@4 to a
GetConsoleWindow@0.  It was a typo which disallowed successful
linking, nothing else.  Your current version of w32api disallows
even compiling the stuff.

> Yes, Cygwin is what is broken with this patch.

Definitely not.  But I'm probably not good enough in explaining things,
I'll let others discuss that.

Corinna

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