From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29350: 25.2; Emacs 25.3+ fails to start on Windows XP Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 13:52:57 +0200 Message-ID: <83mv3jg5wm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <84vai7eufj.fsf@tum.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1511006139 24534 195.159.176.226 (18 Nov 2017 11:55:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:55:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 29350@debbugs.gnu.org To: Uwe Siart Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 18 12:55:34 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eG1if-0005zw-94 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 12:55:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49634 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eG1im-0001WR-Nk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 06:55:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52199) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eG1hG-0000To-Og for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 06:54:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eG1hC-0007cu-7j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 06:54:06 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:36945) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eG1hC-0007cq-4N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 06:54:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eG1hB-0002gO-V4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 06:54:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:54:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 29350 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 29350-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B29350.151100600310266 (code B ref 29350); Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:54:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 29350) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Nov 2017 11:53:23 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45626 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eG1gY-0002fW-Uk for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 06:53:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:32791) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eG1gX-0002fJ-05 for 29350@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 06:53:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eG1gN-0007MM-9j for 29350@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 06:53:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55943) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eG1gN-0007MI-5y; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 06:53:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4679 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eG1gM-00043x-Cu; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 06:53:10 -0500 In-reply-to: <84vai7eufj.fsf@tum.de> (message from Uwe Siart on Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:46:08 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:140055 Archived-At: > From: Uwe Siart > Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:46:08 +0100 > > Emacs 25.3 and newer fails to start on a Win XP box. When clicking > runemacs.exe I get an error that says that the procedure call "_time32" > fails in msvcrt.dll. > > I don't see this with Emacs 25.2. > > I got that issue with > > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-25.3-i686.zip > > and also with > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-26-snapshot-x86_64.zip > > and > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-27/emacs-27.0.50-snapshot-i686.zip I'm guessing this is because MinGW64, whose headers and libraries are used to produce the 32-bit builds of Emacs on Windows, dropped the XP support some time ago. FWIW, mingw.org's MinGW still supports XP (and also Windows 9x), and we didn't decide to drop XP support in Emacs yet.