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Keith Bowes
to Keith Bowes: I've changed the Makefiles so that the Win32-API interface is used by default on Windows.…

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I've changed the Makefiles so that the Win32-API interface is used by default on Windows. This should be transparent on non-Windows OS's. I initially created the seperate win32 rule because I knew the GTK+ interface worked better and I wanted to give people an opt-in option. I originally wanted to change the default later if the consensus of Windows users approved it. But now that the GTK+ interface no longer compiles on Windows and the Win32-API is coming along slowly but surely, I think this

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the right time to change it. Of course, Windows users can still compile with another interface if they want. Keith

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I've also removed the win32 and win32clean rules. Now you just use the all (the default) and cleanall rules and the Makefiles will decide the best interface for your OS.

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Keith Bowes

I've changed the Makefiles so that the Win32-API interface is used by default on Windows. This should be transparent on non-Windows OS's.

I initially created the seperate win32 rule because I knew the GTK+ interface worked better and I wanted to give people an opt-in option. I originally wanted to change the default later if the consensus of Windows users approved it. But now that the GTK+ interface no longer compiles on Windows and the Win32-API is coming along slowly but surely, I think this is the right time to change it. Of course, Windows users can still compile with another interface if they want.

Keith

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