64bit only on Windows?

[Imperatorn]

On Saturday, 5 February 2022 at 07:40:40 UTC, forkit wrote:
> On Saturday, 5 February 2022 at 05:27:58 UTC, Siemargl wrote:
>>
>> Deprecating platform is very painful sometimes.
>>
>> A long time ago, when D suddently drops support Win2000, my 
>> business just dropping D.
>
> Well I tried to install Visual Studio 2022 Builtools on Windows 
> 10 the other day.
>
> It wasn't too happy with me, cause my version of Windows 10 is 
> the Anniversary update (1607). In essence, it told me VS2022 
> wasn't build for this edition, and that I'd pretty much be on 
> my own if any issues arise.
>
> So these days, it's more likely MS will drop support for your 
> o/s, long before D drops support for it ;-)
>
> I also tried D on Windows XP 64bit the other day, and was 
> surprised that dmd.exe no longer even executes on that platform 
> :-(

I have written about a fix for that in the forums earlier