Investigate `windows-rs`/`windows-sys` changes for 9x/Me/unicows support

seritools commented 9 months ago

The default "god import" library is imported before unicows.lib, so it prevents unicows from working correctly
target checks are too strict and wont link the god import library on rust9x anyways
- this affects all additional targets like the new win7 one, so I created a fix PR for the official repo
Switching to raw-dylib runs into #15.
link! specifies library names with .dll, making it tricky to change it to #[link(name = "<libraryname>")]
- one way would be to link everything, without raw-dylib, to kernel32, since kernel32 is always linked. Other dependencies will need to be manually specified in the link args, then.

seritools commented 9 months ago

I've added two branches to rust9x/windows-rs, one for NT-based Windows only and another one with 9x/Me/unicows support: https://github.com/rust9x/windows-rs/branches

Added info about it in the Limitation wiki entry as well.

seritools commented 9 months ago

All official releases that include https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/2774 should also work for NT-based systems.

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