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Re: [Mingw-users] Re: WINVER constant value [WAS: GetConsoleWindow]
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- To: mingw-users at lists dot sf dot net, cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Cc: MinGW-users at lists dot sourceforge dot net
- Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 08:59:41 -0400
- Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Re: WINVER constant value [WAS: GetConsoleWindow]
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Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
>
> My guess is that there are more GCC experienced people using MinGW for
> mingw32-gcc than there are MSVC experienced people using MinGW for any
> reason. A drop in replacement for MSVC, surely isn't the desire.
> Wanting to the package to port to all versions of Win32 is the desire.
^^^^^^ s/to the/a
> Using new Win32 API not supported on older versions of the OS isn't the
> way to go about doing that. Runtime surprises, is not the place to
> discover that the port doesn't work.
^on prior versions of win32
Earnie.