Re: [Mingw-users] w32api-3.8 and later

[Peter B. <pb...@hg...>]

Keith Marshall wrote:
> On Monday 27 August 2007 12:49, Peter Boehm wrote:
>> when using w32api-3.8 and later I get linker errors (undefined
>> reference to...) for several symbols declared in cguid.h (for example
>> IID_IEnumCallback, IID_IProxyManager). In w32api-3.7 they are defined
>> in uuid.c and compiled to libuuid.a.
> 
> Where we identified a potential infringement of Microsoft's copyright...
> 
>> Since w32api-3.8 they are no 
>> longer available in libuuid.a and I cannot find any other lib
>> containing those symbols.
> 
> ...so we removed the potentially infringing material, for all releases 
> from this version onward.

Thanks for the explanation. I do not use them directly but I have to use 
a third-party lib for handling some ActiveX stuff. Fortunately I could 
recompile this lib after analyzing and removing the (unnecessary) use of 
these symbols in the source code.

Best regards,
Peter