[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #57270] [MXE Octave] Warnings during Octave compilation

[Markus Mützel]

Update of bug #57270 (project octave):

                  Status:                   Fixed => None                   
             Open/Closed:                  Closed => Open                   

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Follow-up Comment #9:

Another possible solution to avoid the reinterpret_cast warning: We could call
"SetCurrentProcessExplicitAppUserModelID" directly if we increased the Windows
API version that we require. That would also simplify the code.

We are currently targeting the Windows API of Windows NT 4.0 SP3. That
version's lifecycle ended in January 1999. [1]

The attached patch increases the Windows API version to Windows 7 (for which
the support will end in January 2020 [2]). As reported some time ago, Octave
won't run on older Windows OSs anyway because of some dependencies.
The newest Windows version that won't be targeted any longer is Windows Vista
for which the support ended in April 2017. [3]

I'll just leave the patch here in case this should come up again.

[1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search/1159
[2]:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4057281/windows-7-support-will-end-on-january-14-2020
[3]:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/22882/windows-vista-end-of-support

(file #47926)
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Additional Item Attachment:

File name: bug57270_Windows7API.patch     Size:2 KB
    <https://savannah.gnu.org/file/bug57270_Windows7API.patch?file_id=47926>



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