Secunia has made a blog entry about open source applications not implementing
all the MS security features: http://secunia.com/blog/105 . When you build
for Windows XP specifically UAC may not be that important but it does matter
on Vista and later OS versions. Maybe when building new versions of Gnuwin
applications this should be taken into account. The recent versions of GCC and
Bintutils may make it more convenient to implement some of these features. I
have not tried any of them myself except in Visual C/C++ 2008 Express Edition.
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Secunia has made a blog entry about open source applications not implementing
all the MS security features:
http://secunia.com/blog/105 . When you build
for Windows XP specifically UAC may not be that important but it does matter
on Vista and later OS versions. Maybe when building new versions of Gnuwin
applications this should be taken into account. The recent versions of GCC and
Bintutils may make it more convenient to implement some of these features. I
have not tried any of them myself except in Visual C/C++ 2008 Express Edition.