#1846: win32 compile fails on sysmem.c on mingw gcc 4.5 (w. workaround)
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Reporter: ronaldws | Type: bug
Status: new | Priority: normal
Milestone: 2.10 | Component: build
Version: 2.10.0 | Severity: medium
Keywords: | Lang:
Patch: | Platform: win32
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Comment(by ronaldws):
_WIN32_WINNT is essentially a copy of the definition of WINVER in my
environment and my value of 0x0400 seems to correspond to WinNT
4.0/Windows 98. Parrot probably doesn't want to support those versions of
Windows. I found some documentation on WINVER at the links included below
and when I changed mine to 0x0501 (for WinXP) things compiled OK. I find
it reasonable for the compiler to detect such a condition more clearly and
will attach a patch to emit a compile time error for Windows versions less
than Windows2000 under gcc.
Hope this helps someone.
Some helpful links:[[BR]]
[http://old.nabble.com/-define-WINVER-0x0400-td17201634.html Some
postings][[BR]]
[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/aa383745.aspx#setting_winver_or__win32_winnt A link from
Microsoft][[BR]]
[http://oldwiki.mingw.org/index.php/header-w32api_h Mingw wiki posting
about definitions of windows versions][[BR]]
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