DMD 2.092 no longer runs on Windows XP

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 12:38:20 AM MDT cmyka via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wednesday, 12 May 2021 at 06:23:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > Neither does dub. The operating system says they're an invalid
> > exe file.
> >
> > https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21915
>
> On the DMD download page the requirements are Windows 7 or later,
> do we still want to support XP?

Indeed. We decided some time ago to no longer support Windows XP and have
not been testing on it. And with how much the Windows API changed with
Vista, it would not be at all surprising if we were using stuff that does
not work with XP (particularly in some parts of Phobos), though it wouldn't
surprise me if dmd still worked just fine on XP.

Honestly, I'd love to ditch Windows 7 too, because it's no longer supported
by Microsoft, though quite a few people seem to be refusing to upgrade even
though it means no longer getting security fixes.

- Jonathan M Davis