Re: [sdcc-devel] New x68 build machine

[Borut R. <bor...@gm...>]

Sdcc 3.1.0 works well on Win98, tested at least by me and Maarten.

There is a problem when upgrading sdcc on Win9x which can be solved by 
un-installing the old version and fresh install of the new one. But this 
in an other story...

P.S.: Most of questionable is also answerable ;-) : applications 
compiled with MinGW still use the (good?) old msvcrt.dll c runtime 
library which guarantees the backward compatibility.

P.P.S.: in the SDCC 3.2.0 Release Plan at 
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sdcc/wiki/SDCC%203.2.0%20Release%20Plan 
under Target platforms is written:

SDCC binaries will be built for the following platforms, called also "official SDCC platforms":

  *

         Microsoft Windows 2000 and above (win32) 32bit x86

(this was actually already introduced in the Release Plan for sdcc 
2.7.0) so we should probably remove Win9x from lists of officially 
supported platforms in all other documents and web pages.

Borut


On 08. 01. 2012 14:36, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> 2011/8/15 Borut Ražem<bor...@gm...>:
>> from now on all x86 builds: Linux on i386 (i386-unknown-linux2.5), Windows
>> package with installer (i586-mingw32msvc-setup) and Windows 95, 98, ME, NT,
>> 2000, XP, Vista or Windows 7 (i586-mingw32msvc) will be done on a new sdcc
>> DCF build machine named derna.
> Hmm, Windows 95/98/ME/NT? Not so sure if MinGW will work with
> them very well now or not. Anyone still using those ancient OS?
> Anyone testing sdcc installer and function under these OS?
>
> Actually even Win2k support is questionable now.
>
> Last time I asked in MinGW.org mailing list and got some answers
> saying that anything older than XP is questionable.
> http://libusb.6.n5.nabble.com/FYI-MinGW-support-of-Win2k-is-also-questionable-td4343420.html
>