{"id":202,"date":"2009-04-04T11:27:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T19:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/04\/writing-my-own-binding\/"},"modified":"2009-04-30T18:14:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T02:14:29","slug":"writing-my-own-binding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/04\/writing-my-own-binding\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing my own binding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly, I found more and more evidence that win32ada is based on really old Win32 APIs, be more precisely, it may support Windows 95 but definitely not Windows NT 4.0. I believe the mainstream Windows platform today is XP, with some Vista, so win32ada misses a lot.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking to create a new package to include those missing APIs that are necessary to my project, but turned out sometime it is impossible &#8211; some structures are not 4.0 compatible, so most likely I am still programming for Windows 95.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am, seriously, thinking about creating my own binding, which supports modern Windows APIs, either Vista, or 2008. I can start with manually creating bindings that my project needs, then after making sure I&#8217;m doing the right thing, I can run those tools to create full set binding in a (semi-) automatic way.<\/p>\n<p>I will try to avoid layered packages, as I don&#8217;t want to do &#8220;use&#8221; unless it is really necessary (such as &#8220;use type&#8221; for operators), but remembering where the definition comes from is really tough &#8211; WinUser? WinDef? WinGDI? I think they are just C functions stay in same name space, so should be safe to put them in same package.<\/p>\n<p>I know it will be a super big package, but I don&#8217;t think people even want to know about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slowly, I found more and more evidence that win32ada is based on really old Win32 APIs, be more precisely, it may support Windows 95 but definitely not Windows NT 4.0. I believe the mainstream Windows platform today is XP, with some Vista, so win32ada misses a lot. I was thinking to create a new package <a href='https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/04\/writing-my-own-binding\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,5,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xiehang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}