forward declare typedef'd struct

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I can't figure out how to forward declare a windows struct. The definition is

typedef struct _CONTEXT
{
 ....
} CONTEXT, *PCONTEXT

I really don't want to pull into this header, as it gets included everywhere.

I've tried

struct CONTEXT

and

struct _CONTEXT

with no luck (redefinition of basic types with the actuall struct in winnt.h.

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