[PD-dev] help me with my DLL snafu

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Tue Dec 20 21:28:18 CET 2005


On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> Except that no one outside of Pd world (AFAIK) uses MSW to mean Windows.  
> As for windows being a generic term, I don't know anyone that would be
> confused as to which OS you are talking about if you say "windows".  
> Its a common word, yes, but by de facto in computer land "windows" means
> Microsoft.  Win32 might be a comprimise.

"win32" would be nice to distinguish between that and "win64". However, if
both 32-bit and 64-bit executables are likely to be packed into a same
file, then ".pd_win32" as a suffix wouldn't make that much sense anymore.

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