Release request: windows-bindgen (etc?) for compatibility with 0.51 release

[MarijnS95]

Code generated by the current windows-bindgen/windows-metadata 0.49 crates is not compatible with the latest windows(-core) 0.51 release.

@kennykerr are you sure windows-bindgen/windows-metadata don't need an update? They generate calls to ::windows::imp::interface_hierarchy!(), but these have moved into the core.

::windows::core::imp::interface_hierarchy!() would also be inconvenient because the macro internally references ::windows_core and requires the windows-core crate to be in the dependencies list too.

Originally posted by @MarijnS95 in #2605 (comment)

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Apparently compatible releases need to be explicitly requested, so here goes.

[MarijnS95]

Thanks so much @kennykerr, it's all working now!

Only riddle isn't published yet, but I'm using that as a nice excuse to just have a one-liner api_gen crate linking to windows-bindgen. After all, as mentioned in Traverse-Research/amd-ext-d3d-rs#3:

Still on the fence whether to go the cargo install riddle; riddle --etc bindings.txt route, or whether to keep the cargo r -p api_gen crate now that windows-rs decided to keep a windows-bindgen library crate that we can instead give these arguments to ¹.

Footnotes

1. Meaning that the riddle utility does not need to be separately installed, because running the api_gen crate through cargo automatically downloads and compiles dependencies. ↩

[kennykerr]

You're welcome! I'm not in a hurry to publish riddle as I still have a lot of work to do on that front.