From:	moskewcz AT princeton DOT edu (Matthew Moskewicz)
Subject:	Re: DirectDraw
23 Oct 1996 23:40:42 -0700 :
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Rich Drewes wrote:
> 
> Can anyone comment on the feasibility of accessing the DirectDraw API
> from gnu-win32?  Is this a now kind of thing, a someday kind of thing, or
> a never kind of thing?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rich Drewes
> drewes AT interstice DOT com
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Working from only the DirectX 2 SDK, I ported most of DirectX to the
point where I could include the (hacked) micrsoft headers to make things
work and call all the fuctions in the ddraw.dll without error. Mind you,
they all returned CO_E_NOTINITILIAZED ... perhaps my import lib was
incorrect ...
With the win32 SDK and headers, the task of porting would be trivial, as
most of my work involed cobbling enough of RPC together from what little
was included in the DirectX 2 SDK itself. As to weather it would ever
work, I don't know. One would think so, but ...
Perhaps the successor to Windows32api-0.1.2 will eliminate the need for
hacks or the win32 SDK.
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