On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:25:58AM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> A Sunday 12 October 2008 22:04:44, Eric House wrote:
> > I've been seeing discussion of mingw32ce vs cegcc on this list for a
> > while, and not really paying attention.  
> 
> Sorry, clearly, documentation is week.  We should really split
> cegcc and mingw32ce better in the docs and in the webpage.  They
> are really are two different products.
> 
> cegcc - newlib based.  C runtime stuff from coredll.dll is
>         mostly overriden.
> 
> mingw32ce - builds binaries that use coredll.dll as C runtime, with
>         not much extra provided.

Ok.  So if I'm writing an app that *could* be built using M$'s visual
tools, that's written to the Win32 APIs, mingw32ce is the way to go?

> > But now I want to use FindWindowEx and see that it's in a .def file on
> > the cegcc side of things but not on the mingw32ce side.
> 
> Hmmm, can't find that.  Is FindWindowEx even supported on CE ?  I didn't
> think it was.

 ==> svn info .
Path: .
URL: https://cegcc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cegcc/trunk/cegcc
Repository Root: https://cegcc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cegcc
Repository UUID: d7810a3d-100a-0410-8641-c3624a9c11f1
Revision: 1200
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: pedroalves
Last Changed Rev: 1200
Last Changed Date: 2008-10-08 17:51:10 -0700 (Wed, 08 Oct 2008)

 ==> find . -name '*.def' | xargs grep FindWindowEx
./src/w32api/lib/user32.def:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
./src/w32api/lib/user32.def:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is w32api stuff not CE?  I suspected FindWindowEx might not be
supported but googling didn't find any statement to that effect.
Usually you can find people asking for workalikes in that case.

> > Anyway, I'd appreciate any advice you folks can give.  Because working
> > around not having FindWindowEx may be more work than switching
> > toolchains. :-)
> 
> LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress

Never done that before, but it's time I tried.  Thanks.

--Eric
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