MinGW cross compilation fails for d3dx9_36/tests

Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry at codeweavers.com
Fri Mar 28 07:52:19 CDT 2008


"John Klehm" <xixsimplicityxix at gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem is that it is a mingw issue but they don't want any
> patches from wines win32 api in their mingw w32api.  They believe that
> looking at the actual ms header files taints our headers legally
> speaking.  Stefan, hans, and PaulM maintain a rather large set of
> patches against w32api.  [1]
> 
> So its a constant catchup game from when wines headers get new
> additions until someone sends paulm a patch updating the mingw w32api.

Then perhaps we (Alexandre) should reconsider the stance about using
Wine headers and import libraries in preference to mingw ones.

-- 
Dmitry.



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