[Mingw-users] Re: WINVER constant value [WAS: GetConsoleWindow]

[Earnie Boyd]

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.