DMD 2.092 no longer runs on Windows XP
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu May 13 01:33:54 UTC 2021
On 5/12/2021 2:42 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> 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.
dmd doesn't use and certainly doesn't need any APIs not available on XP. dmd
also doesn't use Phobos, so that's not an issue, either.
But I'd like to have an "unofficial" build, too.
Probably I'll just have to build it myself.
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