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On Friday 10 June 2005 15:49, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2005-06-04, Daniel Sauder <daniel.sauder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > _win_thread_init() can be found in wthread.c and loads the ole32.dll. I
> > compiled one of my projects and it seems working nice with that change.
> > So what is ole32 doing here? Is it effecting the stability of the
system
> > not using it? Since WinApi programming is new to me (I'm learning it
> > since about 3 weeks) any comment might be useful.
>
> The comment for _win_thread_init() says that it "Initializes COM
> interface for the calling thread", i.e. so that that thread may start
> calling COM library functions. I assumed it would be necessary in order
> to use DirectX, but it worked for you? Maybe someone else knows more
> about it.
So... does anyone know more about this? Just browsing through some old
messages that are still flagged in my inbox, so maybe this was fixed and I
missed it?
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