[MinGW-notify] [ mingw-Patches-3495292 ] _osver has been removed from msvcr90.dll

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Patches item #3495292, was opened at 2012-02-28 04:54
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Submitted By: a.kruis ()
Assigned to: Chris Sutcliffe (ir0nh34d)
Summary: _osver has been removed from msvcr90.dll

Initial Comment:
MS has removed some symbols from msvcr90.dll (and newer versions), most notably _osver, _winmajor, _winminor and _winver. See 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235497%28v=vs.90%29.aspx
for details. The attached patch encapsulates the definitions for theses functions using appropriate #if ... #endif statements.

I used this patch to build a mingw runtime, that links msvcr90.dll.

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>Comment By: a.kruis ()
Date: 2012-03-12 03:05

Message:
I just added a patch against the latest version from CVS.
I'm actually using a custom build mingw that uses the msvcr90.dll. 

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Comment By: Keith Marshall (keithmarshall)
Date: 2012-03-06 13:39

Message:
Jacky is right; it is pointless patching code which is to be compiled into
libmingwex.a, for our stock build, to support anything other than stock
msvcrt.dll.  Furthermore, the proposed changes to dirent.c are obsolete;
the code against which the patch has been created is no longer present in
CVS.

However, this isn't to say that the patch has no merit at all; it may be
useful to users who wish to create their own custom build, to support more
recent MSVC runtimes, provided a fresh patch against CVS HEAD is submitted.

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Comment By: Jacky Lai (crazyjacky)
Date: 2012-03-03 21:41

Message:
The proposed changes in dirent.c and mingw-fseek.c has no effect since they
are compiled for msvcrt.dll, not msvcr90.dll.

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Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2012-02-28 05:01

Message:
Gotta love change for changes sake.

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