possible BUG: winapi.a missing some functions

Norman Vine nhv@cape.com
Wed Apr 30 14:50:00 GMT 2003


Matthew Webber writes:
> 
> 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.
> 
> I would be grateful for any help recieved.

If you have MSVC installed you can use reimp utility which is part of 
the mingw-utils package to build a libgdi32.a that has these

download mingw-utils from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435

HTH

Norman


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