Re: ShellExecute patch

[Duane Clark]

Steven Edwards wrote:
> > I guess I am not sure what the problem is with WinExec. Originally
> > ShellExecuteEx used CreateProcessA and ShellExecute used WinExec,
> > which simply calls CreateProcessA. I could certainly directly call
> > CreateProcessA if that is preferable.
>
> Yes, I tried to do that once before but could not get it to work
> quite right as I am still learning how to program. Mingw cant import
> from the Win16 api so CreateProcess needs to be used if we want to
> have shell32 for testing under mingw or use under ReactOS.

Hmm, the WinExec looks fairly easy but the WinExec16 appears to be a bit 
more difficult to handle. Perhaps it could be handled more easily with 
some sort of ifdef around those parts? Any suggestions?