From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Default mingw _WIN32_WINNT
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 10:54:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200505085436.GC3947@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALK-3m+s1ZaBq1L2yHj1aVZbps98X+sQrHJATmfJEQ4oLenBOA@mail.gmail.com>
On May 5 08:45, Biswapriyo Nath via Cygwin wrote:
> Chaging the defines in package may break others installation.
No, it doesn't in this case.
Yaakov is talking about mingw-w64 headers used to create *Cygwin*
applications using the occasional Windows function. Cygwin executables
in the distro run on Vista but not on XP or 2K3 anymore, given the
Cygwin DLL doesn't.
Therefore it might be a good idea to bump the default for these
Cygwin-related headers to at least 0x0600.
Setting them to 0x0602 sounds like a good idea, but as long as we didn't
drop Vista or W7 support it might be premature.
Btw., checking Cygwin sources for Vista and W7-specific code, it turned
out that actually very few lines of code handle Vista or W7-specific
workarounds. The advantage of removing the code is pretty minor, so I
didn't push the changes. While it's a bad idea to keep Vista and W7
running (at least attached to the internet), we can support them a while
longer.
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-05 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-04 21:42 Yaakov Selkowitz
2020-05-05 3:15 ` Biswapriyo Nath
2020-05-05 8:54 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2020-05-05 9:05 ` Rainer Emrich
2020-05-05 10:06 ` JonY
2020-05-05 10:11 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-05-11 14:55 ` Chris Wagner
2020-05-11 16:53 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2020-05-11 23:08 ` Chris Wagner
2020-05-08 0:33 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2020-05-08 9:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
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