On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 5:03 AM, James Turner wrote:
> (mostly for Fred, I guess)
Hi James,
I'll defer to Fred's expertise here, but I'm pretty sure that #include
<windows.h> does several magic things that are required for a clean compile
on the windows platform.
It wouldn't surprise me if the standard hello world example for windows is:
#include <windows.h>
main() {
printf("Hello world\n");
}
I'm pretty sure this can't go.
Curt.
Whilst cleaning up various headers and includes, I've noticed quite a
> few files including windows.h, via a section like:
>
> #ifdef HAVE_WINDOWS_H
> # include <windows.h>
> #endif
>
> Many of these files have no obvious reason to be relying on platform
> specific code, and I think that the MSVC standard library is now good
> enough to pull in windows.h if it's required by support functions
> (hopefully never). I believe gl.h on Windows requires windows.h to be
> pulled in, but the <osg/GL> wrapper we're using now takes care of that.
>
> So, if someone with access to Win32 fancies doing a quick audit in FG
> and SG of these, feel free. My (optimistic) hope would be that they
> can *all* die, since virtually all of our platform code is now in osg,
> but I'm sure there will be a couple of exceptions. (Timing, maybe?
> Sockets?)
>
> In any case, it would be good to get windows.h out of all the headers,
> so it's at least only dragged in per compilation unit.
>
> Regards,
> James
>
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