From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Update 'uname' emulation on MS-Windows
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 05:37:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83twfp3s7v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86bn1x9s89.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Andy Moreton on Sat, 16 Jul 2016 22:40:38 +0100)
> From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 22:40:38 +0100
>
> On Sat 16 Jul 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > The processors and OS versions of the emulated 'uname' need an update;
> > the patch below does that:
>
> This uses GetVersionEx, which does not tell the truth on versions after
> Windows 8 unless the application contains a manifest (see online
> documentation for GetVersionEx at MSDN for details).
Right.
> Does the Mingw toolchain supply a suitable manifest automatically ?
No. The manifest should be provided with Guile.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-17 2:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-16 7:27 Update 'uname' emulation on MS-Windows Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-16 8:58 ` Andy Wingo
2016-07-16 10:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-16 21:40 ` Andy Moreton
2016-07-17 2:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-07-17 12:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-23 21:03 ` Andy Wingo
2016-07-24 14:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-24 17:04 ` Andy Wingo
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