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[Mingw-w64-public] to jony, RE: 3398375
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From: Jim M. <jmi...@ya...> - 2011-09-03 04:50:58
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I *DO* target for windows 7/8/vista/xp/98 etc for using my windows xp machine all the time (I am a developer, I target for platforms I don't have, especially since I don't have 10 machines with varying OS's lying about). it would be extremely useful for me to be able to access windows vista and windows 7 system metrics compiling on a windows xp box, because my customers have windows 8, 7, vista, xp, 2000, 98, etc.! So I need to target for ALL the platforms when I am making utilities like mine (especially sysinfo). what's the worst that could happen if I pretend I have windows 7? the GetSystemMetrics() or whatever it was called will simply return a 0, right? (and so it does) so the call is a failure and I simply don't print anything for output. I wrote a wrapper batch file that allows me to automatically generate and compile in an XML manifest resource required by windows vista/7/8 for running in the protected Program Files. and I found out my apps run just fine (with the exception of windows 9x/me, but that's been fixed in latest revision of compiler). so now I can make windows 7 exe's with my xp box and they work great. If you want the batch file for mingw-w64, it's at http://JesusnJim.com/code/compilers/mingw.html and it' called gw2.cmd I won't go into the subject any more unless you want to. your winuser.h fix worked. many thanks. ----------------------------------------------------- Jim Michaels jmi...@ya... JimM@JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JimsComputerRepairandWebDesign.com http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) ------- Computer memory/disk size measurements: [KB KiB] [MB MiB] [GB GiB] [TB TiB] [10^3B=1,000B=1KB][2^10B=1,024B=1KiB] [10^6B=1,000,000B=1MB][2^20B=1,048,576B=1MiB] [10^9B=1,000,000,000B=1GB][2^30B=1,073,741,824B=1GiB] [10^12B=1,000,000,000,000B=1TB][2^40B=1,099,511,627,776B=1TiB] Note: disk size is measured in MB, GB, or TB, not in MiB, GiB, or TiB. computer memory (RAM) is measured in MiB and GiB. |