The future of the Windows API header translation project

[Stewart Gordon]

I've just been doing a bit more work on the Windows API headers when I had a thought or two.

Windows Vista is now here.  Vista-new API features will need to be included sooner or later.  But can we really do anything but wait for MinGW to be updated to Vista?

I've just updated the versioning system to accommodate Vista.  But maybe we should wait at least till we finally get up-to-date .lib files before we start adding stuff in this respect.


If I'm not mistaken, then Win64 is here as well.  I'm not sure how much of the code we'll need to change to support Win64.  One thing that's for sure is that we'll have to stop calling the package win32 at some point.  And I guess we'll also have to adjust some of the .lib names and string constant values.  But I don't know whether it's a simple matter of replacing all occurrences of "32" with "64" or something more complicated.

(Do we have a D compiler for Win64 yet?  DMD clearly hasn't got that far, but how's GDC doing here?)


Comments?

Stewart.