What's up with the windows headers?

Jack via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jan 4 10:13:57 PST 2015


thanx, i will try it. when the headers go to the release version 
of D, than it would be a great time to adapt dlf. maybe one 
should do  that with these headers of yours wright now.



On Sunday, 4 January 2015 at 14:58:23 UTC, FrankLike wrote:
> On Friday, 2 January 2015 at 14:27:11 UTC, Jack wrote:
>> For newcomers doing the jump from C++ to D and current D 
>> users, wanting to program on windows, the missing windows 
>> import files are like a major step back. In C++ you got the 
>> full headers & stuff - ready to use.
>>
>> The incomplete 'core.sys.windows.windows' isn't enough and 
>> sometime interferes with the necessary definitions you do on 
>> your own since you are forced to do it.
>>
>> This way to exclude most windows users and thats where you 
>> might win a lot of new programmers, due to the nice support 
>> via Visual D.
>>
>> Is that on the agenda/road map?
>
> Re: What's up with the windows headers?
>
> You can look at this:
>
> https://github.com/FrankLIKE/WindowsServiceInD/tree/master/src/onedge/win32
>
> Here not have the '_WIN32_WINNT_ONLY' in winbase.d and other d 
> file ,no trouble in here.
>
> Frank



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