Re: MFC8 on NT4
Carlo Capelli wrote:
I got a problem releasing our application, recompiled with visualstudio
2005.
Some user still using NT4 reports an exception like 'could not find entry
point for GetLongPathNameW in kernel32.dll'.
I think it's related to MFC8 compilation: it's NT4 unsupported? Or maybe a
patch is required?
Many thanks in advance.
Carlo:
These are the minimum supported target platforms for the different VS
versions:
VC5: Windows 95 and Windows NT4
VC6: Windows 95 and Windows NT4
VS2002: Windows 98 and Windows 2000
VS2003: Windows 98 and Windows 2000
VS2005: Windows 98 and Windows 2000
Orcas: Windows 2000
However, this does not necessarily mean that a particular application
will not run on an earlier system than that indicated. If you want to
support Windows 95/NT then you should define WINVER to be 0x0400; this
"should" catch unsupported features at compile time.
If you look at the documentation for GetLongPathName() you will see it
requires Windows 98 or Windows 2000. Kernel32.dll is part of the OS, and
the NT4 version apparently does not contain GetLongPathName(). You will
have to get rid of this call.
Are you sure that your code worked on NT4 with an earlier version of the
compiler? This does not seem possible.
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David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP
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