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-rw-r--r--src/music/win32_m.cpp6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/music/win32_m.cpp b/src/music/win32_m.cpp
index 35e7cdef3..2310c50e2 100644
--- a/src/music/win32_m.cpp
+++ b/src/music/win32_m.cpp
@@ -142,7 +142,11 @@ const char *MusicDriver_Win32::Start(const char * const *parm)
}
if (NULL == (_midi.wait_obj = CreateEvent(NULL, FALSE, FALSE, NULL))) return "Failed to create event";
- if (NULL == (_midi.thread = CreateThread(NULL, 8192, MidiThread, 0, 0, NULL))) return "Failed to create thread";
+
+ /* The lpThreadId parameter of CreateThread (the last parameter)
+ * may NOT be NULL on Windows 95, 98 and ME. */
+ DWORD threadId;
+ if (NULL == (_midi.thread = CreateThread(NULL, 8192, MidiThread, 0, 0, &threadId))) return "Failed to create thread";
return NULL;
}