On 20 July 2010 10:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Can you please explain this a bit more? What exactly are these
> applications doing? I'm asking because one way to extract the constants
> via an application is "grep" in the VC++ include directory. How are the
> apps in question extracting constants?
One example is the following code employed by a user to determine the
value IID_IActiveDesktop:
#include <windows.h>
#include <shlguid.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
void print_guid(const char *name, const GUID *guid)
{
int mem[4]; /* Assume sizeof(int) == 4 */
int i;
memcpy(mem, guid, sizeof(mem));
printf("%s: 0x", name);
for (i = 0; i < 4; i++)
printf("%X", mem[i]);
printf("\n");
}
int main(void) {
GUID template = IID_IShellView2;
GUID cls = CLSID_ActiveDesktop;
GUID iid = IID_IActiveDesktop;
print_guid("template", &template);
print_guid("cls", &cls);
print_guid("iid", &iid);
return 0;
}
This code was compiled VC++ and run to extract IID_IActiveDesktop.
From what the OP stated, he never looked at the header files, just
used this 'blackbox' approach.
> FYI, I already asked for legal advice about the situation with Mingw64,
> which is different, but might give some important insight. kIf you give
> me some hints about these apps, I'll forward your request as well. The
> reply might take some time, though.
No worries, I would very much appreciate the legal advice around this
and will gladly hold off doing anything with the patch until I've
heard back.
Thank you,
Chris
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Chris Sutcliffe
http://emergedesktop.org
http://www.google.com/profiles/ir0nh34d
