cppwin32

A modern C++ projection for the Win32 SDK (by microsoft)

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  • MSVC C++23 Update
    3 projects | /r/cpp | 3 Jun 2023
    I would imagine something like https://github.com/microsoft/cppwin32 would maybe be an easier way forward for that?
  • TIL we can prevent macro invocation by placing the function name in parentheses
    3 projects | /r/cpp | 21 May 2023
    no, Microsoft has rewritten the windows API in C++ I think https://github.com/microsoft/cppwin32
  • A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Feb 2023
    An official work in progress Windows binding, still far behind of what C# existing bindings are capable of, or legacy toolkits like MFC.

    Also given how the team has managed C++/CX transition to C++/WinRT with lesser tooling stuck on C++17, dropped Modern C++ bindings [0][1], before going into other shinny thing, I wonder how long they will keep at it.

    [0] - https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/01/21/making...

    [1] - https://github.com/microsoft/cppwin32

  • VS2022 how to make Windows C++ (like VB) program
    1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 26 Jan 2023
    If you want to use the old tooling, your C++ is going to be very "C with classes," and it's going to use a lot of weird datatypes that don't feel very C++ at all. Microsoft had a project for wrapping the Windows API in idiomatic C++, but appear to have abandoned it. If you choose to go down this road, Charles Petzold's Programming Windows is the book to get. Yes, it's 25 years old, but all the new stuff is just new COM controls (which you can look up in the API documentation)--the fundamentals of making a Windows API program work seriously have not changed.
  • Windows API as a C++ module ?
    3 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 12 Nov 2022
    Even Rust has a native projection of the windows API (which is actually pretty usable). This projection has the same roots as the C++ projection mentioned by u/amnesiac0x07C5. So I don't believe macros are a blocker here.
  • Win32 strings
    1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 6 Apr 2022
    See : https://github.com/microsoft/cppwin32
  • Wanting to get started
    2 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 27 Jan 2022
    Microsoft have recently put decent effort into making the Windows APIs more accessible to C++ users. One of these efforts is called C++/WinRT, and it specifically targets applications intended for "modern" Windows (Windows 8 and later). There's another effort underway at Microsoft for making the older Win32 API more C++-friendly, but it isn't documented nearly as well.
  • How to use C++ HANDLE event
    2 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 25 Jan 2022
    There is a similar project for C++, but it sadly seems to be dead already. The last commit was one year ago.
  • [Belay the C++] windows.h breaks the STL (and my will to live)
    9 projects | /r/cpp | 11 May 2021
    not that hard to wrap windows.h and undef the annoying stuff, and only a handful of files in your codebase will include it anyway. on the other hand stuff like this looks extremely worse and exactly like the kind of c++ that is hard banned in gamedev codebases
  • Microsoft is working on making the Win32 api available for use in modern C++
    5 projects | /r/cpp | 21 Jan 2021
    They are, actually, it's linked from the article: https://github.com/microsoft/cppwin32
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