> From: Keith Marshall <keith****@users*****> > Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:07:57 +0000 > > Okay, you may be able to write the program to depend only on features of > Win9x initially, (with WinNT support demanding no more than WinNT4), and > then use PSAPI, LoadLibrary(), and GetProcAddress() to selectively > enable optional features which depend on later APIs -- and MinGW's dlfcn > API can help with this -- but that's going to take some effort, and > demand some advanced programming techniques ... feature test > specifications alone are not going to get the job done. It does indeed take some effort, but, for example, Emacs does precisely that. > In general, what you are asking for is feature support on two mutually > exclusive levels. No combination of compile-time feature test macros is > going to give you that ... you need to put in the programming effort to > identify the platform capabilities at run-time. Which is why __USE_MINGW_FSEEK is simpler to use: its effect is localized and simple to understand. But I'm repeating myself. Thanks.
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