Re: [XBoard-devel] GPL and WinHelp

[Tim Mann]

On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:26:16 +0200, "h.g. muller" <address@hidden> wrote:
> But now the Workshop is needed for the building of winboard.exe
> itself...

Why is that?  Is there a .h file that only comes with the HTML Help
Workshop that you need to #include?  Or is it that you need the import
library at link time?  My Windows knowledge is pretty rusty, but maybe
you can use LoadLibrary() to get around this.  See:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686944(VS.85).aspx

Approaching this from another angle, it looks like the HTML Help
Workshop is something that MS lets you download for no charge.  If
that's right, needing it wouldn't stop users from recompiling winboard;
it would just be an inconvenience.

> How come the old WinBoard did not need a library to define the
> function WinHelp() ? Was there a non-proprietary replacement
> for that?

I think WinHelp is in one of the standard Windows system libraries, so
you didn't need the old help workshop to link to it.

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