I've been thinking a lot lately about the w32api code and using AI to help update it. Some Open Source packages work fine with MinGW64's Win32 API headers but won't compile with the MinGW headers. The MinGW64 project said they used a clean room approach to add to their headers. Wondering if one could use AI projects like Copilot to implement an approach like that to update the MinGW headers. Also, from what I've been hearing as far as legalities, material from AI cannot be copyrighted. So, if an AI like Copilot generated information about the Windows API, assuming it wasn't plagiarizing, wouldn't what it generated be in the public domain? Any thoughts or ideas on the subject? I've been working on getting the latest versions of packages like SDL, libressl and curl to build with MinGW and not just MinGW64. So, I'd be very interested in brainstorming how to effectively add missing information to the Win32 header files so it's easier to build packages like these. I think the mingwports concept never became that popular, but I do have several build scripts I'm working on that build popular packages in C with MinGW.
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