Re: [Mingw-users] unable to use GetSystemTimes() on windows xp media center using mingw 5.1.3

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Sunday 29 July 2007 18:38, hatchetman82 wrote:
[Using GetSystemTimes API]
> my windows version is detected wrong and the #ifdef kicks in.

No.  You seem to be misunderstanding the purpose of WINVER and 
_WIN32_WINNT; your windows version is not detected at all -- you are 
expected to set the version you wish to support, in your own code.

> im runing the with eclipse 3.3 (europa), CDT 4.0, MinGW 5.1.3 and
> Msys 1.0.10 on a windows media center 2003 machine (which should
> qualify for that method declaration).

> any ideas on what im doing wrong ? or anything further i could post
> to clear my problem up ?

That function requires _WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0501.  You must provide a 
define to select that windows version yourself, before you include 
windows.h, if you want to features of versions later than the default, 
which is 0x0400.

HTH,
Keith.