On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:14:02PM +0100, Farkas Levente wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Farkas Levente wrote: > >> may be it's not the right place to ask and would be better to move to > >> mingw mailing list, but it's the right version? > >> ie. the current runtime really not support __MSVCRT_VERSION__ >= 0x0601? > >> thanks. > > > > No, it's just that the default version is 0x0600 to be compatible with old > > installed versions of msvcrt.dll. > > > > You can compile with -D__MSVCRT_VERSION__=0x0601, but then expect trouble on > > systems which still ship the ancient 0x0600 version (e.g. Window$ 95 OSR 2, > > I guess - the original Window$ 95 didn't include msvcrt.dll at all). I'm > > not sure when the 0x0601 version was introduced nor whether it's worth > > caring about the systems which shipped the 0x0600 version and never got > > their msvcrt.dll upgraded by a newer M$VC application. > > ok i know that and it's works, but the real question is: > do we want to support such old systems? > if not shouldn't we have to add > -D__MSVCRT_VERSION__=0x0601 > (or even 0x0700) to macros.mingw32's %_mingw32_cflags? > so which windows version we'd like to support?
It's not a good idea to add this to _mingw32_cflags. Developers can add it themselves when they want to deprecate these really old systems for their own software. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ _______________________________________________ fedora-mingw mailing list fedora-mingw@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mingw
