Using SendInput with MinGW in Eclipse CDT

Question

I'm trying to use SendInput() on Windows but I'm building under MinGW using Eclipse CDT... the header files included with mingw don't expose this function, so I'm wondering if/how you can access such a feature? Or.... is it a trap that can't be avoided thanks to microsoft making all their SDK's only work with visual studio? Thanks!

Answer 1

Found out the issue with a little more research. Normally I would delete my posts when I find the solution shortly after but since I couldn't find the solution or anything related to this problem here, I'll post an answer:

"You need #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x500 // or any other value higher than 403 before including windows.h"

From: http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/windows/48595/