Windows 8 Metro support

John Chapman johnch_atms at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 10 00:58:56 PDT 2012


On Tuesday, 10 April 2012 at 07:24:09 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> But one thing in particular, that you are not allowed to do is 
> to use kernel32.dll (at least I was told). So you still have to 
> rewrite all the C-library functions (such as fopen(), malloc() 
> and so on) and anything that the D runtime or Phobos uses from 
> kernel32 or similar libraries; I gues the same applies to 
> ws2_32 and so on.

Not strictly true. Here's the subset of the Win32 API that can be 
used in Metro apps: 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br205757.aspx


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