Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> On 30 June 2012 07:17, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > Is that the latest version of MingW? MEMORYSTATUSEX is a standard part
> > of Windows XP and later.
> >
> > Hmm, I found a suggestion to put this before including windows.h:
> >
> > #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0501
> >
> > We have never needed that for other features, thus I doubt that is the
> > right solution.
>
> It is the one possible solution, MEMORYSTATUSEX is defined by the
> mingw.org compiler in winbase.h which is included by windows.h, and
> looking at the definition:
>
> #if (_WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0500)
> typedef struct _MEMORYSTATUSEX {
> DWORD dwLength;
> DWORD dwMemoryLoad;
> DWORDLONG ullTotalPhys;
> DWORDLONG ullAvailPhys;
> DWORDLONG ullTotalPageFile;
> DWORDLONG ullAvailPageFile;
> DWORDLONG ullTotalVirtual;
> DWORDLONG ullAvailVirtual;
> DWORDLONG ullAvailExtendedVirtual;
> } MEMORYSTATUSEX,*LPMEMORYSTATUSEX;
> #endif
>
> The current w32api provided by mingw.org defines _WIN32_WINNT as
> WINVER and WINVER is defined as 0x0400, so it won't pick up this
> struct.
>
> Another way this could be handled is by define _WIN32_WINNT in the
> .mak files. In fact in the Make_ming.mak file WINVER is defined as:
>
> # Set the default $(WINVER) to make it work with pre-Win2k
> ifndef WINVER
> WINVER = 0x0400
> endif
>
> So adjusting it in the source would be ineffective anyway, you should
> just adjust WINVER in Make_ming.mak.
If we can solve it by changing the default for WINVER to 0x0500 that
should probably work. Still, there is quite a large uncertainty about
what the side effects are.
I would really appreciate it if a few people try out the solution for
changing WINVER on different systems.
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