On 28/12/2012 19:20, Stewart Gordon wrote:
On 28/12/2012 18:54, Phil Lavoie wrote:
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Additional Question: Is there a reason why you use MingW's headers
instead of VC? I am just wild guessing here, but aren't VC's most likely
to be up to date?

Copyright.  The MinGW headers are public domain.

On top of this, to use the headers from VS would require that somebody who is involved with the project has access to a version of VS that has the headers for the latest version of Windows, or at least access to said headers. What's more, it would be more of a challenge to update our bindings when a new version comes out.

OTOH, anybody can download the MinGW headers for free, both the latest version and older versions in order to compare them and determine what changes need to be made to our bindings.

Stewart.

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