Bug#662815: closed by Stephen Kitt st...@sk2.org (Re: Bug#661442: Ping)
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:07:05 +0100, Eugen Dedu eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr wrote: Stephen, where do you check if a header needs to have another header included (such as windows.h)? I have found a very interesting thread: http://old.nabble.com/windows.h-dependency-td15175386.html It is very interesting indeed. As far as I know the way to check whether another header is needed it to look up the documentation on MSDN, although it does tend to be incomplete — for instance the documentation for DNS functions only mentions windns.h, even though windns.h needs windows.h (or more typically, winsock2.h). In general, if a header doesn't build on its own, adding windows.h before it fixes things. It's not satisfactory, I know, but I don't think there's anything better... Regards, Stephen signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#662815: closed by Stephen Kitt st...@sk2.org (Re: Bug#661442: Ping)
On 24/03/12 10:41, Stephen Kitt wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:07:05 +0100, Eugen Dedu eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr wrote: Stephen, where do you check if a header needs to have another header included (such as windows.h)? I have found a very interesting thread: http://old.nabble.com/windows.h-dependency-td15175386.html It is very interesting indeed. As far as I know the way to check whether another header is needed it to look up the documentation on MSDN, although it does tend to be incomplete — for instance the documentation for DNS functions only mentions windns.h, even though windns.h needs windows.h (or more typically, winsock2.h). In general, if a header doesn't build on its own, adding windows.h before it fixes things. Indeed, but we try to be as close to Windows as possible, so if on Windows it does not require windows.h, then with mingw it should not either. -- Eugen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#662815: closed by Stephen Kitt st...@sk2.org (Re: Bug#661442: Ping)
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 11:48:18AM +0100, Eugen Dedu wrote: On 24/03/12 10:41, Stephen Kitt wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:07:05 +0100, Eugen Dedu eugen.d...@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr wrote: Stephen, where do you check if a header needs to have another header included (such as windows.h)? I have found a very interesting thread: http://old.nabble.com/windows.h-dependency-td15175386.html It is very interesting indeed. As far as I know the way to check whether another header is needed it to look up the documentation on MSDN, although it does tend to be incomplete — for instance the documentation for DNS functions only mentions windns.h, even though windns.h needs windows.h (or more typically, winsock2.h). In general, if a header doesn't build on its own, adding windows.h before it fixes things. Indeed, but we try to be as close to Windows as possible, so if on Windows it does not require windows.h, then with mingw it should not either. My statement regarding windns.h and its use with winsock2.h was based on my Windows development experience, not on tests with MinGW-w64. As mentioned on for #661444, I've checked windns.h using Visual C++ 2010 as well as MinGW-w64 and it does still require windows.h or winsock2.h. Regards, Stephen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#662815: closed by Stephen Kitt st...@sk2.org (Re: Bug#661442: Ping)
On 23/03/12 07:33, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report which was filed against the mingw-w64-dev package: #662815: mingw-w64-dev: Error when including windns.h It has been closed by Stephen Kittst...@sk2.org. Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate message then please contact Stephen Kittst...@sk2.org by replying to this email. Stephen, where do you check if a header needs to have another header included (such as windows.h)? I have found a very interesting thread: http://old.nabble.com/windows.h-dependency-td15175386.html -- Eugen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
