Roger Pack wrote: > I received some complaints saying in mingw it was"requiring windows 8" for > a certain library. > > "Entry point not found, GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime could not be located > in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll".
Indeed, according to <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/sysinfoapi/nf-sysinfoapi-getsystemtimepreciseasfiletime> the function GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime is not present in Windows 7 and older. Looking at the table at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows#Timeline_of_releases> I see that Windows 7 is out of "extended support" already for more than 2 years. That means, users with such machines (connected to the internet) live very dangerously. Eli: What are the current support statements of Emacs regarding Windows XP/Vista/7 ? And should Gnulib declare that the minimum supported version of Windows is Windows 8? > Perhaps the following patch? Thanks! :) > > diff --git a/lib/gettimeofday.c b/lib/gettimeofday.c > index 36c7920af..428cc4f30 100644 > --- a/lib/gettimeofday.c > +++ b/lib/gettimeofday.c > @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ > # undef LoadLibrary > # define LoadLibrary LoadLibraryA > > -# if !(_WIN32_WINNT >= _WIN32_WINNT_WIN8) > +# if (_WIN32_WINNT >= _WIN32_WINNT_WIN8) > > /* Avoid warnings from gcc -Wcast-function-type. */ > # define GetProcAddress \ > Nope, this patch is not right. > "Entry point not found, GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime could not be located > in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll". It looks like some code links directly to GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime, and your user is running it under Windows 7 or older. Which object file is it that links to GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime? - If it's not gettimeofday.c, it's not in Gnulib's responsibility. - If it is gettimeofday.c, this file must have been compiled with a _WIN32_WINNT value >= _WIN32_WINNT_WIN8. You need to look in your build files where this value come from. Maybe it is even the default with your compiler version; if that version is new enough, that would make sense. Bruno
