> On May 30, 2020 4:35 PM Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > > > Steve Lhomme wrote: > > > So, it makes sense to put your code into a separate library, that > > > implements > > > Windows API on top of UWP API. Gnulib focuses (partially) on providing the > > > POSIX and glibc API on top of the Windows API. > > > > That's the case in mingw-w64 which has winstorecompat to mimick some of the > > forbidden APIs without having to recompile the code: > > https://github.com/mirror/mingw-w64/tree/master/mingw-w64-libraries/winstorecompat > > Thanks for confirming that such a library already exists! > > > You can see one of the last commit is adding GetFileInformationByHandle() > > for example. But that means anyone building with an older version of > > winstorecompat cannot rely on this helper. > > That's not a good enough reason for adding this code to gnulib.
I agree. But there should be a way to compile gnulib without calling the forbidden/old/deprecated API's. That's currently not possible. For example in stat-w32.c the "_GL_WINDOWS_STAT_INODES == 2" mode is not enabled yet. And even then it would still do a call GetFileInformationByHandle() which will not link in the end. (in mingw-w64 it will because they don't builds libs for UWP/not-UWP)
