From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Unable to build GDB on Windows
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:21:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v9fykjv6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200928151523.GD15552@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Mon, 28 Sep 2020 08:15:23 -0700)
> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 08:15:23 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> > Btw, looking at Gnulib's getrandom.c, my conclusion is that a GDB
> > built on Windows 7 and later will be unable to run on older versions
> > of Windows, because it will have a static dependency on bcrypt.dll and
> > the BCryptGenRandom function from that DLL. IOW, such a GDB will
> > refuse to run on older Windows systems.
>
> I think that's fine. IMO, the general spirit should be that people
> interested in building a GDB that works on multiple versions of
> an OS should build it on the oldest version they want to support.
> I don't think we want to commit to anything stronger than that.
Maybe just say that in some README?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-28 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-28 13:47 Simon Cook
2020-09-28 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 15:15 ` Joel Brobecker
2020-09-28 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-09-28 15:17 ` Christian Biesinger
2020-09-28 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-28 15:02 ` Simon Cook
2020-09-28 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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