Re: [boost] Boost.Filesystem for Universal Windows (windows-api=store)

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Filesystem for Universal Windows (windows-api=store)
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-10-06 09:29:44

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Mikael Olenfalk
<mikael.olenfalk_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> > There is a need to abstract
>> > away more of the differences between traditional Windows API's and
>> > Universal app API's.
>>
>> FYI we have a winapi submodule which already does a fair job of
>> abstracting away from different Windows SDKs and to some degree from
>> the target Windows platform (i.e. desktop vs. runtime). It is also
>> intended to be a Boost-wide configuration point for the target Windows
>> version. I think this could be the place for the abstraction layer for
>> Windows API.
>>
>
> (I guess you mean this: https://github.com/boostorg/winapi)

Yes.

> Looks nice, have you started porting to winrt already?

I haven't but there were pull requests adding some support for WinRT.
I don't know how complete it is as I don't use or compile for WinRT.