Re: Gtk+ 2.4 no go on Windows 95

[Christof Petig <christof petig-baender de>]

Tor Lillqvist schrieb:
> Christof Petig writes:
>  > Gtk 2.4 does not start on Windows 95 since GetFileAttrExA is missing in 
>  > KERNEL32.dll.
>
> Please open a bug report on bugzilla.gnome.org for this, so it won't
> be forgotten.

Ali told me that it is already mentioned in #137543

> Note that I don't think we care much to support Win95. But if this
> really is the only thing that prevents GTK+ 2.4.1 from working on
> Win95, I think we could/should fix it. We can't just skip the code
> that uses the return value from GetFileAttributesEx() if it isn't
> available, though. We must instead fetch the same info using
> FindFirstFile() instead. Or, why not use FindFirstFile() on all Win32
> platforms.

What do you think about using runtime lookup of the function and fall 
back on FindFirstFile - or do you think that FindFirstFile is the 
preferred way to go?

   Christof