setup.exe: error: ‘KEY_WOW64_{64,32}KEY’ was not declared in this scope

[Shaddy Baddah]

Hi,

On 16/04/13 01:34, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> On 16/04/13 00:39, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
>> I'm encountering this error whilst trying to build (32bit) setup.exe,
>> under 32bit Cygwin:
>>
>> make[2]: Entering directory
>> `/cygdrive/c/Users/sbaddah/cygwin-home/workarea/cygwin-setup-build'
>> CXX install.o
>> ../cygwin-setup/install.cc: In function ‘void
>> create_allow_protected_renames()Â’:
>> ../cygwin-setup/install.cc:265:27: error: ‘KEY_WOW64_64KEY’ was not
>> declared in this scope
>> ../cygwin-setup/install.cc:265:27: error: ‘KEY_WOW64_32KEY’ was not
>> declared in this scope
>> Makefile:855: recipe for target `install.o' failed
>> make[2]: *** [install.o] Error 1
>>
<snip/>
> I think I may have worked out what is wrong. I understand now (actually
> again, I'd forgotten) that the old mingw project is a little bit stale,
> and that mingw64 is the way forward.
>
> I'd configured my build using:
>
> $ ../cygwin-setup/configure --host="i686-pc-mingw32" -C
>
> which is using the legacy mingw32 compiler and its stale w32api.
>
> That w32api has a strange guard around the definitions for the above:
>
> #if (_WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0502)
> #define KEY_WOW64_64KEY 0x0100
> #define KEY_WOW64_32KEY 0x0200
> #endif
>
>
> And however it is defined, _WIN32_WINNT is set as 0x0400.
>
> I am trying with:
>
> $ ../cygwin-setup/configure --host="i686-w64-mingw32" -C
>
> I am expecting this will work. I can report back if necessary.

Yes, this has worked. Sorry for the noise.