Support Windows XP

[Imperatorn]

On Monday, 3 May 2021 at 10:43:30 UTC, user1234 wrote:
> On Monday, 3 May 2021 at 09:53:42 UTC, Dukc wrote:
>> On Sunday, 2 May 2021 at 18:15:04 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
>>> I modified the PE header (set major version and subsystem to 
>>> 5) and it worked 🌞
>>>
>>> No idea how much ub this causes tho.
>>
>> Care to explain this in beginner-friendly way? I think it's 
>> likely it will help other people with same kinds of problems.
>>
>> DMD for Windows should work just as well in XP as in later 
>> versions, as far as I know. I don't think it depends on any 
>> functionality introduced after XP.
>
> operating system + druntime bindings might be the only issue.
>
> Support for XP was dropped because it went EOL and that's it.
> The compiler itself just needs to read files, write files, call 
> processes and that's it.

Yeah, maybe, idk actually.

Imo dmd should be compiled with Major version 5 :>