[fpc-devel] windows shlobj SIGDN longint

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2026, Mattias Gaertner via fpc-devel wrote:

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> On 6/24/26 22:54, J. Gareth "Kit" Moreton via fpc-devel wrote:
>> Hmmm, that's a little bit difficult.  What happens if you define the 
>> constants as, say, "SIGDN_FILESYSPATH = longint($80058000);"?
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> Then it would compile.
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> But it seems the C code uses DWord, so why should FPC use longint?

Historic reasons, most likely. 
Of course it should not use longint these days, it must be changed to DWord/Cardinal.

Michael.