doc: Update documentation about Windows platforms support a bit
Update what c-extensions says about Windows platforms support a bit: - Document that MinGW Win32 gets let off being POSIX-compilant - Document the minimum Windows version supported Signed-off-by: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Colin Harrison <colin.harrison@virgin.net>
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* interleaved code and declarations: { foo = TRUE; int bar; do_stuff(); }
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* interleaved code and declarations: { foo = TRUE; int bar; do_stuff(); }
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Use of OS and library facilities throughout the X server tree
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Use of library facilities throughout the X server tree
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Non-OS-dependent code can assume facilities at least as good as
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Non-OS-dependent code can assume facilities at least as good as
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Unix-like systems are assumed to be at least as good as UNIX03.
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Unix-like systems are assumed to be at least as good as UNIX03.
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Note that there are two Windows ports, Cygwin and MinGW:
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- Cygwin is more or less like Linux.
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- MinGW is more restrictive. Windows does not provide the required
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POSIX facilities, so some non-OS-dependent code is stubbed out or
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has an alternate implementation if WIN32 is defined. Code that
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needs to be portable to Windows should be careful to, well, be portable.
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Required OS facilities
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Linux systems must be at least 2.4 or later. As a practical matter
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Linux systems must be at least 2.4 or later. As a practical matter
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though, 2.4 kernels never receive any testing. Use 2.6 already.
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though, 2.4 kernels never receive any testing. Use 2.6 already.
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TODO: *BSD.
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TODO: *BSD.
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Code that needs to be portable to Windows should be careful to,
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Windows-dependent code assumes at least NT 5.1.
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well, be portable. Note that there are two Windows ports, cygwin and
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mingw. Cygwin is more or less like Linux, but mingw is a bit more
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restrictive. TODO: document which versions of Windows we actually care
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about.
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OSX support is generally limited to the most recent version. Currently
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OSX support is generally limited to the most recent version. Currently
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that means 10.5.
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that means 10.5.
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