Angus Leeming wrote:
Beman,
you use the WinAPI call GetFileAttributesExA only twice in Boost.Filesystem, in _is_empty and file_size, but that means that the code won't run on Windows 95:
file is linked to missing export KERNEL32.DLL:GetFileAttributesExA
The msdn docs http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fileio/fs/getfileattributesex.asp suggest that Win95 support requires only that you grab NewAPIs.h from the SDK Update Site.
Actually, Beman, can I suggest the following patch? This allows the code to compile unchanged out of the box. If I want to support Win95 I need to define WANT_GETFILEATTRIBUTESEX_WRAPPER and provide NewAPIs.h. I can define the WANT_GETFILEATTRIBUTESEX_WRAPPER macro in my own config.h header file which is already #included by your library through BOOST_USER_CONFIG Thereafter, in some source file of my own I need only add #include <config.h> #define COMPILE_NEWAPIS_STUBS #include <NewAPIs.h> #undef COMPILE_NEWAPIS_STUBS and all works beautifully. Regards, Angus