From: gunther DOT ebert AT ixos-leipzig DOT de (Gunther Ebert)
Subject: Re: Using TWIN Win32 headers
9 Feb 1998 06:00:52 -0800
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To: Mumit Khan <khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu>
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Mumit Khan wrote:
> 
> Has anyone looked at TWIN LGPL'd headers (http://www.willows.com/)
> in detail to see if these are usable for GNU-Win32?
> 

No, I think they are not. A lot of ANSI/UNICODE stuff is missing
(for example the CreateWindowEx API is defined as UINT WINAPI CreateWindowEx(..)
instead of the CreateWindowExA/CreateWindowExW pair) so that the linker
cannot resolve many functions. Some macros (__stdcall!) are redefined in the
headers causing the compiler to not use the stdcall convention, winsock.h
assumes the existence of netinet/in.h, sys/socket.h and sys/ioctl.h.
It would require some work to get these headers working with gnu-win32.


Gunther
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