possible BUG: functions normally in winpen.h do not appear to exist

[Elfyn McBratney]

> I have recently tried to compile fltk (fltk.org) under the latest version
of
> cygwin. The build failed because it was unable to find the following
> functions/defines:
>
> o DC_PEN
> o DC_BRUSH
> o SetDCPenColor
> o SetDCBrushColor
>
> I then searched my borland compiler's include directory and found that
> the functions/defines were prototyped/defined in winpen.h, so i copied
> this to the cygwin include directory and attempted a recompile. It
> compiled but did not link due to the fact that SetDCPenColor and
> SetDCBrushColor were undefined references.
>
> I came to the conclusion that i was eaither missing a package, or that
> the winapi package was missing those functions.

What platform are you running Cygwin on? (eg., Windows 9x/Me or Windows
NT/2000/XP). If the prior, you won't be able to use those GDI functions as
they're only available on Windows 2000 and later.

Elfyn


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