Re: [boost] [winapi] Major changes in develop

Subject: Re: [boost] [winapi] Major changes in develop
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-07-01 17:28:40

On 01.07.2015 20:47, Edward Diener wrote:
> On 6/21/2015 12:25 PM, Andrey Semashev wrote:
>>
>> If anyone has problems with this change, please let me know.
>
> Versions of mingw/gcc, which are gcc 4.8.1-4 and below, fail because
> their windows.h names for some things are not the same as being used by
> winapi, even when i use the define above. This also goes for clang,
> which targets mingw/gcc 4.8.1-4.
>
> Most noticeable is _RTL_CRITICAL_SECTION with their name being
> _CRITICAL_SECTION instead.

I suppose, I could add workarounds for the legacy MinGW. My concern is 
clang, though. When it begins to support MinGW64 SDK then I won't be 
able to deduce whether these workarounds are needed or not.