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posted by kerravon E-mail, Ligao, Free World North, 02.07.2021, 13:31

> > Since 2015 it switched to mostly use -W functions and thus dropped win9x
> > compatibility, since 2020 it uses SEH for exception handling.
>
> Couldn't this have been abstracted? Windows
> already has this abstraction, doesn't it?
>
> I see this in my windows.h (in PDOS):
>
> #define CreateDirectory CreateDirectoryA

Actually, couldn't one of your targets simply
be "generic C90" instead of "specifically
Windows"? If so, and you link against
msvcrt.dll, you will have an executable that
basically works everywhere.

BFN. Paul.

 

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