Re: [Mingw-users] Windows versions and MinGW

[Oscar F. <of...@wa...>]

"Thomas Messenger" <mes...@ci...> writes:

> and received two replies indicating MinGW XP-98 compatibility.
> I would add a caution to those replies.  If you trigger the UNICODE
> conditional switches in the Windows headers in a Windows application
> compiled in XP, the resulting code will not run in 98 which has very
> limited UNICODE tolerance.
[snip]

Thomas,

you surely know that there are *dozens* of API functions which will
make your application dependant of certain Windows version.

On this regard, UNICODE is a simple issue: either you use it (and
stick to WinNT and up) or don't (and run everywhere).

Every time an API function or structure is used on your code, check
the documentation for version-dependant issues.

[snip]

-- 
Oscar