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Re: patch for chicken on 64-bit windows (msys and mingw-w64)
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felix . winkelmann |
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Re: patch for chicken on 64-bit windows (msys and mingw-w64) |
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Fri, 27 Aug 2021 18:09:09 +0200 |
> My gut says we should just drop our custom version and rely on Mingw's
> dirent.h , but that is a bigger change for the RC (but we can ask people
> to test again of course) and would make supporting MSVC in the future a
> bit more difficult again.
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Using the already provided implementation is preferable, I'd say - one way
to shift responsibility, which, in this utter mess of Windows API, seems to be
the only way forward.
Do we already have test results on all supported Windows platforms? I lost
track.
felix