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Add FAQ entry on whether to use winapi-rs or windows-rs

Open slix opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

This would be useful for people who need to choose a way to call Windows APIs.

I found little information online about making a choice:

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/l23fr7/rust_for_windows_bindings_generating_the_entire/gk745dk/
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25866116
  • https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/1314

slix avatar Jan 06 '22 01:01 slix

@slix choose windows-rs, it has all functions you need, this was was hand-made and it feels like writing C code not Rust code, the windows one is more Rusty.

Kreijstal avatar Apr 07 '23 05:04 Kreijstal