@mattn @jacobsantos Please review the pull request. This is required for my project in order to utilize go-ole package.

Looks okay. I looked up why the global and I am guessing it is from the notes that the function will be called no more than once. I am unable to verify the code works. I am willing to merge as it should be safe and not affect other parts of the code.

@mattn @patilsanty I think this should be safe to merge. It is unfortunate that the CI is down to verify automatically.

@jacobsantos Thank you. When can the CI build will be up?

@patilsanty There is an build error.

# golang.org/x/tools/internal/gocommand
c:\gopath\pkg\mod\golang.org\x\[email protected]\internal\gocommand\invoke.go:399:62: undefined: os.ErrProcessDone
note: module requires Go 1.18

it looks like the build is using Go 1.12. Please submit something that works with Go 1.12.

It is likely that the Go version can be bumped up since Go 1.12 was EOL 4 years ago. We could probably bump that to 1.18 safely given the language backwards compatibility support.

@patilsanty If you can submit something that supports Go 1.12 and that passes the CI, then we can get this merged.

Passed CI check. Merging. Thanks @patilsanty

@jacobsantos Can you help me to create a tag out of this commit? I require similar changes in my codebase to work with windows snapshots, this change will help me reducing local changes in lib.

The tag would have to be 1.3.x. I don't want to mess with 1.2 since it may upgrade those on that branch.

1.3.0 has been released. Thank you for the help!