Re: [boost] Win32 undefs/redefs [was File operations: Win32 question [was Re: the first version of abstract path...]]

From: Alan Bellingham (alan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-24 08:37:33

Ross Smith <r-smith_at_[hidden]>:

>It occurs to me that, if you're going to write all that code for every
>API function (pair) that you use anyway, it may be simpler just to leave
>the Windows headers out altogether and simply write your own headers
>with just the extern declarations for FooA() and FooW() and your
>overloaded Foo(), losing the macros completely. (Also that it probably
>wouldn't be terribly difficult to automate the header conversion
>process.)

That _is_ the other possibility, yes.

However, I'm a bit leery of actually doing that, for a few reasons:

1) Copyright. 
2) The possibility of making mistakes. 
3) It's difficult to avoid the real headers getting included anyway.

But automating it more is definitely the way forward.