emacs-cvs built on Windows XP crashes on Windows 2000

["Peter 'Luna' Runestig" <peter@runestig.com>]

Hi all,

If I build emacs from cvs (20020829) on Windows XP (using VC++ 6), the
binary doesn't work on another system, running Windows 2000. This is not
the case for emacs 21.2, that works fine. It took me some time to figure
out why:

For some reason, a few Windows API functions are loaded at runtime,
using GetModuleHandle()/GetProcAddress(). In 21.2, this was done
"locally"; each time one of those function was needed, it's entry point
in the shared library was queried and then used. In the latest code, the
entry point are queried only when the global variable "initialized" ==
0, and then stored in global variables. This only happens once, at build
time, when the globals are actually saved in the binary (if I understand
it correctly). But one can hardly expect the entry points for functions
in various shared libraries to be the same across systems, or ever
system upgrades (which are constanty needed when running a Microsoft
OS). So when I run emacs, built on XP, on Windows 2000, it tries co call
functions at totally bogus entry points, and is sure to break.

Cheers,
- Peter
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