DX Headers (was Re: Development Status Update 2)

[John Fortin]

There are potential liscensing issues with the MS DX Headers.  They are not
supposed to be redistributed, even though you can download them from microsoft.
That's why I have not submitted them.  If MS ever changed this policy it would be
different.

John

"'cgf@redhat.com'" wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 07:21:07AM -0500, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> >Harold
> >You can use libddraw.a and headers from John Fortin.  There is a link at
> > http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree .
>
> If John has headers, can he submit them to the cygwin project?
>
> cgf
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Harold Hunt [ mailto:Harold@compasstechnologies.com ]
> >Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 9:21 PM
> >To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> >Cc: 'cgf@redhat.com'
> >Subject: RE: Development Status Update 2
> >
> >
> >Chris,
> >
> >I gave the Cygwin headers another go and was able to, eventually, compile
> >with them.  One minor pain I encountered will manually including the Cygwin
> >Win32 API headers was that a macro used by winnt.h was defined in windows.h,
> >but not in winnt.h; to compile I had to copy the macro out of windows.h and
> >past it into my source file as I show at the end of my email.  Of course, it
> >would be nice if this macro was defined somewhere other than windows.h... :)