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Indeed, lets hope Embarcadero uses it to bring some long neglected RTL files up to date.

 

Also OpenSSL, but dare not ask them anything new, so far behind on 3.0.

 

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Isn't this just something that read metadata from WinMD and write wrappers? You can do that already so I guess the news is that they're generating WinMD from the SDK headers.

 

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6 hours ago, Anders Melander said:

Isn't this just something that read metadata from WinMD and write wrappers? You can do that already so I guess the news is that they're generating WinMD from the SDK headers.

 

This is about generating wrappers for classic Win32 API, Not some WinRT stuff. Autogenerate Windows.pas! 😎

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49 minutes ago, uligerhardt said:

This is about generating wrappers for classic Win32 API, Not some WinRT stuff. Autogenerate Windows.pas! 😎

Yes, that's what I wrote.

However the metadata comes from WinMD, which is also used by WinRT:

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The output of this project is effectively an ECMA-335 compliant Windows metadata file (winmd) published to Nuget.org containing metadata describing the entire Win32 API surface.

 

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24 minutes ago, Anders Melander said:

Yes, that's what I wrote.

However the metadata comes from WinMD, which is also used by WinRT:

 

Ok, then I misunderstood you. 😎

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