On Monday, 30 June 2014 at 15:19:39 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Monday, 30 June 2014 at 15:14:24 UTC, Jeremy Sorensen wrote:
>> documentation means "import core.sys.windows.windwos"
>
> The Windows headers that come with D are pathetically minimal. You'll need to grab a more complete win32 header OR copy/paste the individual prototypes off MSDN and use them that way.
>
This is a more complete set of windows api headers
https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/WindowsAPI

On Monday, 30 June 2014 at 15:19:39 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> The Windows headers that come with D are pathetically minimal. You'll need to grab a more complete win32 header OR copy/paste the individual prototypes off MSDN and use them that way.
>
> So add this to your D file after importing core.sys.windows.windows:
>
> extern(Windows)
> void GetStartupInfoA(STARTUPINFO*); // the pathetic druntime Windows headers define TCHAR as ascii, so we'll use the A version
>
>
> And try compiling it. If it complains that STARTUPINFO is undefined too, copy its prototype in:
>
> struct STARTUPINFO {
>   DWORD  cb;
>   LPTSTR lpReserved;
>   LPTSTR lpDesktop;
>   LPTSTR lpTitle;
>   DWORD  dwX;
>   DWORD  dwY;
>   DWORD  dwXSize;
>   DWORD  dwYSize;
>   DWORD  dwXCountChars;
>   DWORD  dwYCountChars;
>   DWORD  dwFillAttribute;
>   DWORD  dwFlags;
>   WORD   wShowWindow;
>   WORD   cbReserved2;
>   LPBYTE lpReserved2;
>   HANDLE hStdInput;
>   HANDLE hStdOutput;
>   HANDLE hStdError;
> }
>
>
> And that should make it work.

Yup that worked

On Sunday, 29 June 2014 at 15:06:25 UTC, Jeremy Sorensen wrote:
> The only question I have is what happens when you use SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS:4.0 (Which I understand means XP or higher) and the program runs on something older?

Windows XP is version 5.1.
4.0 was Windows NT 4 (which I believe was the NT-family Windows version preceding Windows 2000).

On Monday, 30 June 2014 at 15:58:50 UTC, Jason King wrote:
> On Monday, 30 June 2014 at 15:19:39 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Monday, 30 June 2014 at 15:14:24 UTC, Jeremy Sorensen wrote:
>>> documentation means "import core.sys.windows.windwos"
>>
>> The Windows headers that come with D are pathetically minimal. You'll need to grab a more complete win32 header OR copy/paste the individual prototypes off MSDN and use them that way.
>>
> This is a more complete set of windows api headers
> https://github.com/AndrejMitrovic/WindowsAPI

I have a mirror which updates automatically, and is usable as a git submodule:
https://github.com/CS-svnmirror/dsource-bindings-win32