From:	"bowman" <bowman AT montana DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: RSXNTDJ + Anders Norlander's WinAPI headers
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Date:	Thu, 9 Sep 1999 21:05:06 -0600
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Johan Venter <jventer AT writeme DOT com> wrote in message
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> I'm just wondering, but are Anders Norlander's headers any more up to date
> the the MSSDK headers?

They are a clean room implementation of the MS headers. I haven't tried to
use them with RSXNTDJ, but they work well with MingW32, and are fairly
complete. Unlike the Cygwin headers, they do preserve the filenames and
structure of the MS set. This mean if you want to include a dll that is not
presently available, you can edit the MS header and build the wrapper
libxxx.a fairly easily.

One very great advantage: you don't have to download every trashcan in
Redmond to get just the headers.

I think it would be worthwhile to use Anders' set and extend them as needed.
Ultimately, this would bring some of the more obscure dll's into the gnu
world.

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