Re: [PATCH] stat: implement GetFileInformationByHandle with Winstore apps restrictions

[Bruno Haible]

Steve Lhomme wrote:
> > > You can see one of the last commit is adding GetFileInformationByHandle() 
> > > for example. But that means anyone building with an older version of 
> > > winstorecompat cannot rely on this helper.
> > 
> > That's not a good enough reason for adding this code to gnulib.
> 
> I agree. But there should be a way to compile gnulib without calling the 
> forbidden/old/deprecated API's. That's currently not possible. For example in 
> stat-w32.c the "_GL_WINDOWS_STAT_INODES == 2" mode is not enabled yet. And 
> even then it would still do a call GetFileInformationByHandle() which will 
> not link in the end. (in mingw-w64 it will because they don't builds libs for 
> UWP/not-UWP)

It should link fine if you use the 'winstorecompat' library that you mentioned.
If it doesn't, it's a problem with that library, not with Gnulib.

Bruno