What's up with the windows headers?

[Dmitry Olshansky]

12/30/2012 3:20 AM, Stewart Gordon пишет:
> On 28/12/2012 19:20, Stewart Gordon wrote:
>> On 28/12/2012 18:54, Phil Lavoie wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> Additional Question: Is there a reason why you use MingW's headers
>>> instead of VC? I am just wild guessing here, but aren't VC's most likely
>>> to be up to date?
>>
>> Copyright.  The MinGW headers are public domain.
>
> On top of this, to use the headers from VS would require that somebody
> who is involved with the project has access to a version of VS that has
> the headers for the latest version of Windows, or at least access to
> said headers.  What's more, it would be more of a challenge to update
> our bindings when a new version comes out.
>

Platform SDK is free for anyone having Windows license. It includes 
relevant headers, libraries and build tools.

Copyright issues might be more critical though.

> OTOH, anybody can download the MinGW headers for free, both the latest
> version and older versions in order to compare them and determine what
> changes need to be made to our bindings.
>
> Stewart.


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Dmitry Olshansky