Re: unsupported function problem - WinCE

From:
Victor Bazarov <v.Abazarov@comAcast.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:02:31 -0400
Message-ID:
<gc32bu$cap$1@news.datemas.de>
yoavrofe wrote:

I'm trying to run a small program on both PPC and CE devices.
I am calling SHGetAutoRunPath only when running on a PPC platform.
However, since this function depends on aygshell.dl, which doesn't
exist on the CE platform, the program does not run at all on the CE
platform.

if(lstrcmpi(lpCmdLine, _T("install")) == 0)
    {
        // Card has been inserted. We NEVER get here on a CE platform!

        TCHAR szSDAutorunFullPath[MAX_PATH+1]; // Compact Flash path
        SHGetAutoRunPath(szSDAutorunFullPath);
.....
}

Is there a way to make the program run on both platforms without
recompiling it?


C++ language Standard defines the language so that the portability
requirement is satisfied on the *source code* level, not on the binary
level. No other guarantees exist from the platform point of view WRT
the executables you can produce from that code. Now, if your platform
chooses to give you some additional guarantees, e.g. that the executable
can run on two platforms if built with certain settings, then it's the
choice of the *platform*, not the language. IOW, you need to ask about
those things in the *platform* newsgroup, not the language newsgroup.

V
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