Steve Lhomme wrote: > > > You can see one of the last commit is adding GetFileInformationByHandle() > > > for example. But that means anyone building with an older version of > > > winstorecompat cannot rely on this helper. > > > > That's not a good enough reason for adding this code to gnulib. > > I agree. But there should be a way to compile gnulib without calling the > forbidden/old/deprecated API's. That's currently not possible. For example in > stat-w32.c the "_GL_WINDOWS_STAT_INODES == 2" mode is not enabled yet. And > even then it would still do a call GetFileInformationByHandle() which will > not link in the end. (in mingw-w64 it will because they don't builds libs for > UWP/not-UWP)
It should link fine if you use the 'winstorecompat' library that you mentioned. If it doesn't, it's a problem with that library, not with Gnulib. Bruno
