Re: Remove support for old names in runtime

Hans Leidekker wrote:

>On Sunday 21 March 2004 14:14, Filip Navara wrote:
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>>>Those aren't Win32 projects are they? Who is building them
>>>on MinGW?
>>>      
>>>
>>Lot of people including Danny Smith himself. You have little chance to
>>force this to be commited. Is the patch needed for compiling Wine MSVCRT
>>on MinGW or is it for another reason?
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>
>I know I can't force it, but it certainly is strange that
>you keep very old, limited, *Unix* compatibility in there that
>breaks compatibility with Win32 projects: you either have to change
>your build to do -D_NO_OLDNAMES on MinGW or you have to change
>anything that happens to conflict with the old names.
>
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>
What is breaking compatibility with Win32 projects????  Give examples of 
the breakage.  We've been at this a long time and the first I've heard 
of such breakage.

Earnie.

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