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Re: Fix compilation using mingw.org's MinGW
On 4/18/19 6:20 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 4/18/19 4:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> MinGW64 no longer supports versions of Windows older than XP, but
>> mingw.org's MinGW does. Since we load GetCurrentConsoleFont
>> dynamically at run time, and have code for when the load fails, it
>> makes sense to not assume XP at compile time. The patch below does
>> that. OK to push (with the pertinent ChangeLog entry)?
>
> Didn't we drop support for < XP some time ago?
>
>From gdb/NEWS:
~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Removed targets
GDB no longer supports native debugging on versions of MS-Windows
before Windows XP.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
So shouldn't we instead be setting _WIN32_WINNT to some
appropriate number?
Thanks,
Pedro Alves