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Win32::API v0.48 adds cdecl function call support

cosimo on 2008-02-20T21:37:06

As you probably know, I have been struggling to get Win32::API to work on Vista with various MSVC++ and GCC compilers.

Since many have asked for it, and some brave soul had an old patch available on the net, I decided to give it a shot.
I had already tried 2 or 3 times to get this patch (originally for v0.41) integrated in the new Win32::API versions, but always failed at it.

Today I decided to take the full journey, and seems I succeeded. Probably I broke something else... :-)
Please bare with me. Anyway, I have 2 things left in this release that I want to address in the new one:

  • There's a Borland C macro def that is completely broken (thanks to BrowserUk for noticing)
  • I need to complete the stack cleanup assembler code at the end of Call() function in the XS code. This should be easy, for some definition of "easy", since I already have some examples of MSVC/GCC assembler code in my RT queue.

In the meanwhile, if you notice something wrong with your OS/Perl/compiler, please mail me or fill in your bug report in RT. Thanks!

Keep up the good work...

Alias on 2008-02-22T01:08:00

... concensus seems to be building for "use Win32::API for everything Win32:: instead of all that custom C" amongst the Strawberry crowd, so I'm looking forward to a universally-working Win32::API with great anticipation.