Suggestion to use common Win32 headers

[Lawrence]

Sascha Katzner Wrote:

> Sean Kelly wrote:
> > Using basically any of them in a Windows app increased binary size
> > tremendously.
> 
> That is simply wrong. Perhaps it was true in the far past, but as long
> as I know/commit to the Win32API project (~1 year) that was never the case.
> 
> > * Some of the headers were broken, and because of the size and number
> > of headers, fixing them proved to be somewhat complicated.  The
> > extension of this being that maintaining the headers promised to be a
> > considerable task that no one wanted to take on.
> 
> The only file at the moment which is problematic is "winsock.d", because
> nobody seems to care enough to fix it... I think that is because there
> is no reason for it, if you have "winsock2.d". But nonetheless this
> is no problem, because the makefile accounts for this. The whole build 
> process not even gives a warning.
> 
> All you have to do, to use the Win32API headers:
> 1) type "make" in the project directory
> 2) link "win32.lib" and add the project directory to your include path
> 
> > * Windows has some versioned headers that conflict with one another,
> > such as the winsock and winsock2 headers.  The bindings project
> > didn't provide any good way to handle this at the time, and it caused
> > problems with some applications (for me anyway).
> 
> In the build process you can specify which version do you want, the 
> default in the makefile is for example:
> 
> 	DFLAGS += -version=Unicode -version=WindowsVista
> 
> but you can easily specify other versions like "Windows2003", 
> "WindowsXP" etc. ... this is all defined in "w32api.d".
> 
> > Also, very few people really need the bulk of what's in the Windows
> > headers.  Tango has been using Trevor's headers for ages now, and the
> > number of requests for Windows header additions is practically nil.
> 
> I use them for every project... but then again I'm kind of a purist and 
> don't like the existing window libraries in D. ;)
> 
> LLAP,
> Sascha
> 
> Project: http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/wiki/WindowsApi
> Forum:   http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=30

I am very new to D and I am not familiar with dsource.org.
How to I get this library.

lh