Re: FILE_NAME_INFO struct in 'glib/gmessages.c'

[John Emmas <john creativepost co uk>]

On 16/09/2017 02:41, Chun-wei Fan (范君維) wrote:
> John Emmas 於 2017/9/16 上午 03:00 寫道:
>
> > I'm assuming you're referring to this SDK?
>
> Yes, this is the SDK I was mentioning.  It does work for Visual Studio 
> 2005, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb986638.aspx 
> under "Supported Compiler, Platform and related software".

Thanks Fanc (I'm never quite sure what to call you !)

For Windows programming, I've always been wary of trying to 
"mix-and-match" between different MSVC libraries (regardless of that 
Microsoft says!).  So how about this for a compromise...

If the idea is to drop support for Win-XP (and yet retain support for 
VS2005) we could achieve it with some quite simple changes. Only 2 or 3 
files would need to get changed and it's mostly just stuff like this...

wherever we currently use this:-

        #if _WIN32_WINNT < 0x0600

we'd change it to this:-

        #if (_WIN32_WINNT < 0x0600 || (defined(_MSC_VER) && _MSC_VER < 
1500))

I'd be happy to produce a full patch if you like.  I've already tried it 
here with VS2005 and glib is now building fine again.  Best regards,

John