version(Windows)

[Downs]

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