version(Windows)

[Downs]

David Friedman schrieb:
> Downs wrote:
>> David Friedman schrieb:
>>
>>> Downs wrote:
>>>
>>>> Marjancek wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm having a hard time trying to compile with gdc. I make use of
>>>>> windows functions from std.path, but it seams that the version is not
>>>>> set to Windows, and so I get an ugly assert(0) from path.d.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've tried using -fversion=Windows, but then I get an error that this
>>>>> is a reserved word. Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Mariano.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have encountered the same problem. This seems to be the fault of 
>>>> gdc, which should probably set version=Windows, not only 
>>>> version=Win32, as it does now (or at least allow us to set 
>>>> -fversion=Windows by ourselves).
>>>> In the meantime, an "acceptable" fix is to change all occurences of 
>>>> version(Windows) in the header files to version(Win32). Ugly, but 
>>>> there you go.
>>>
>>>
>>> Are you using Cygwin?  Enabling version(Windows) or version(Win32) 
>>> would cause a binary incompatibility with Phobos.  I am thinking it 
>>> would be better to just remove the restrictions from the Windows 
>>> headers.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>> I'm using MinGW32 GDC against GCC 4.0.3, built from SVN.
>> I made a version which has "Windows" removed from the list of 
>> protected identifiers.
>> So far, it seems to do the job. :happy:
>> Greetings
> 
> Both Win32 and Windows are supposed to be enabled for MinGW32.  Can you 
> send me the contents of
> 
> <gdc prefix>/include/d/4.0.3/mingw32/phobos-ver-syms
> 
> (The 'mingw32' dir may be something like 'i686-pc-cygwin'.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David

I don't seem to have that folder. Temporary confusion ensues.
There is, however, an include/d/4.0.3/i686-pc-mingw32/phobos-ver-syms, so I'll append that instead.
It consists of
Windows
[some empty lines]
GNU_Have_fwide
GNU_Have_strtold
[some empty lines]

Hope that helps.