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[ENH]: Remove the use of win32api #938

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[ENH]: Remove the use of win32api#938
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P2Low priority - Nice to havecuda.bindingsEverything related to the cuda.bindings moduleenhancementAny code-related improvementstriageNeeds the team's attention
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mdboom
opened on Sep 3, 2025

As @rwgk pointed out, we don't need the whole win32api package to make the handful of Windows API calls we need to make. Instead, we could just define extern functions in Cython directly. This would be more efficient (no need to go through Python) and remove a ~9MB dependency on pywin32.

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  6. mdboom
    closed this as completedin #942on Sep 10, 2025
  7. rwgk
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    Fix NVIDIA#938: Call win32 APIs directly (NVIDIA#942)

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