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RE: Watcom's WINVER ?

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Aug 12, 2004
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Wolf wrote:
> 
> Anyone know how Watcom's header files derive their strange decimal 
> WINVER id's.
> ... for example, I know that:
> #if (WINVER >= 1280 )
> ... means, at least, NT something or other.
> How do they get this number, ??
> ... using either GetVersion(), or GetVersionEx() ??
> 

I can't speak for Watcom but with MinGW it is defined in windef.h:

#ifndef WINVER
#define WINVER 0x0400
/*
 * If you need Win32 API features newer the Win95 and WinNT then you 
must
 * define WINVER before including windows.h or any other method of 
including
 * the windef.h header.
 */
#endif

-- Brian