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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:48:06 +0100
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Subject: Re: mintty doesn't run on NT4 due to lack of GetConsoleWindow
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Christopher Faylor:
> I spent much of the day trying to resurrect my Windows NT4 system and
> now that I finall have it back, I just tried to run mintty and noticed
> that it seems to be using GetConsoleWindow. =C2=A0That's not allowed on N=
T4.
> I get an error that says:
>
> "The procedure entry point GetConsoleWindow could not be located in the d=
ynamic link library KERNEL32.dll"
>
> Andy would it be possible to avoid calling this function when it isn't
> available? =C2=A0I'm going to put back the workaround code which used to =
be
> used on Windows 9x in Cygwin so you can steal that when I'm done if
> you'd like.

Could you give the latest svn trunk version a go on NT4? A compiled
binary is here:

http://mintty.googlecode.com/files/mintty-svn-trunk-r527-cygwin17.zip

(Btw, MinTTY 0.5-beta1 is also available from http://mintty.googlecode.com.)

Andy

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