[PATCH] Ensure PSAPI_VERSION is 1 when building ldd

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Wed May 26 17:04:53 GMT 2021


On Wed, 2021-05-26 at 17:51 +0100, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 26/05/2021 10:04, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On May 25 22:37, Jon Turney wrote:
> > > On 22/05/2021 16:08, Jon Turney wrote:
> > > > On 20/05/2021 19:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > > Hi Jon,
> > > > > 
> > > > > On May 20 18:46, Jon Turney wrote:
> > > > > > The default PSAPI_VERSION is controlled by WIN32_WINNT, which we
> > > > > > set to
> > > > > > 0x0a00 when building ldd, which gets PSAPI_VERSION=2.
> > > 
> > > In the just released w32api 9.0.0, _WIN32_WINNT is now set to 0xa00 by
> > > default, so this issue is probably going to surface in a few other
> > > places as
> > > well.
> > 
> > I added _WIN32_WINNT and NTDDI_VERSION settings to make sure we notice
> > any problems right away.
> 
> I'm not sure what the mechanism by which we're going to notice is?
> 
> Adding WIN32_WINNT=0x0a00 everywhere changes the meaning of '#include 
> <psapi.h>' in a way that is incompatible with Vista.
> 
> So this has broken dumper, and possibly other utils, on Vista.
> 
> I don't know if there are any other imports in other header which also 
> have this annoying behaviour...

Does Vista REALLY still need to be supported at this point?

-- 
Yaakov



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