On Wednesday, January 7, 2026, Thiago Macieira wrote:

>
> I don't see ncurses or Win32 (even in "lean and mean mode") ever fixing
> themselves.



I include <Windows.h> in just one source file in the entire program, and I
call that source file "windows_bomb_chamber.c", and then I export a few
stub functions from that translation unit so that other source files can
use the Win32 API. My header file "windows_bomb_chamber.h" then defines a
few types I need which can be found here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winprog/windows-data-types

Recently I was working on a project in work where the last guy had included
<Windows.h> just so that he could use the macro WINAPI just in case the
program got built for 32-bit x86 and needed __stdcall. I told him this was
massive overkill and replaced it with a preprocessor if-else ladder to
define WINAPI appropriately for the platform. Turns out the if-else ladder
wasn't needed because __stdcall is ignored if you're not on 32-Bit x86.

There probably has never been a worse header file than <Windows.h>.