Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Windows version info

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8 December 2013 22:32, Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Graham,

Le 8 déc. 2013 à 22:56, Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

Compiling with VS2013, the GetVersionEx function is now reported as deprecated:

E:\Wireshark\trunk\version_info.c(368): warning C4996: 'GetVersionExW': was declared deprecated [E:\Wireshark\2013build\wireshark.vcxproj]
E:\Wireshark\trunk\version_info.c(853): warning C4996: 'GetVersionExW': was declared deprecated [E:\Wireshark\2013build\wireshark.vcxproj]
E:\Wireshark\trunk\ui\win32\file_dlg_win32.c(451): warning C4996: 'Get VersionExW': was declared deprecated [E:\Wireshark\2013build\wireshark.vcxproj]

Normally with nmake builds we should have a flag removing this warning (see bug 9375 and revision 53059). Are you using cmake?

This was with CMake, however hiding the warning isn't really fixing the issue. 

Should we switch over to using the Version Helpers API and\or VerifyVersionInfo (and remove a lot of cruft from version_info.c)?  This has already been partially implemented in ui\win32\file_dlg.c as part of https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9297

Version Helpers API: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn424972(v=vs.85).aspx

This is not what we need for version_info.c: this new API allows you to check a minimum OS requirement, not to get current OS version. See my comments in bugs 9297, 9298 and 9375 for more details.

In version_info,  get_os_version_info() just sets the stirng as required, using the Version Helpers we could step back from 8.1 down to Vista (or XP if we must) and stop when a version is found.  The IsWindowsServer() call allows us to differentiate between the two variants.

In get_os_major_version() the two callers I can see are checking for Vista or later, so that could be replaced with IsWindowsVistaOrGreater(), or more generically with IsWindowsVersionOrGreater(), changing the function to is_os_version_or_greater(versionRequired) or similar.

The call in win32_save_as_statstree() in file_dlg_win32.c could again be replaced with a call to is_os_version_or_greater(), or could be removed entirely as it's only for NT 4.0/Win95 compatibility of the OPENFILENAME structure ofn.

As I said, lots of cruft can be removed.

I'll maybe look at this at the weekend.