[smjg]

I've figured that it's time to start adapting the WindowsAPI project to support D2.

This means, at the least, declaring pointer types as const where appropriate. Of course, this needs to be done without breaking D1 compatibility.

Fortunately, I've found a way of doing it. The CPtr template is now defined in basetsd.d. I don't know if there's a better place where it could be put. Maybe if we find ourselves with more to do towards full D2 compatibility, we could start a separate module to keep the support code in one place.

Please use this template to translate any const pointer types declared in MinGW. It will be necessary both to do this when adding stuff to our translation and to update what's already done to this. I will update the wiki pages in due course.

[leo]

If I import win32.windows on dmd 1.039 I receive three "template instance forward reference" errors in winnt.d line 48.
This error is probably caused by the circular dependencies between basetsd.d and winnt.d. So I think it would be better to put the declaration in some other file, basetyps.d didn't seem suitable to me as well, because it imports windef and thus also winnt. So far I couldn't find any other solution than putting CPtr into a new file.

Or did I do anything wrong?

[smjg]

[leo]

rev 315 was the last working version, I'm using rev 324 now.
The minimal test case ^^ :