[MinGW-Users] How to request additions to w32api?

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John David Gressett jdgre****@hotma*****
Fri Feb 12 02:07:13 JST 2021


>From: MinGW-Users <mingw****@lists*****> on behalf of Eli Zaretskii <eliz****@gnu*****>
>Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2021 8:22 AM
>To: MinGW Users List
>Subject: Re: [MinGW-Users] How to request additions to w32api?

>> From: Keith Marshall <keith****@users*****>
>> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 12:06:00 +0000
>>
>> > (It is not clear to me whether the *.def files are maintained by hand
>> > or are produced by some tool.)
>>
>> The initial .def file, for any given import library, is likely to have
>> been generated byt the "pexports" tool -- that's certainly what I use,
>> when I have access to the DLL.

>pexports doesn't produce the @NN part of the function's export, so I
>thought it was insufficient.  One could add that part manually, but
>counting bytes could be error-prone.

>Thanks for the other answers, I'll open a ticket when I have time.

>P.S. I also think we need to add a value of _WIN32_WINNT that
>corresponds to Windows 10, our current values seem to stop****@8*****.

Microsoft does publicly document the Windows 10 value for
_WIN32_WINNT but they do it by displaying a section of the 
appropriate header source code, with no mention of the 
restrictions that are placed on use of the header file contents.
It is not clear that this value is actually usable, considering the 
license restrictions.
source code. 
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