From: Uwe Siart <usenet@siart.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 25.3+ fails to start on Win XP
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:43:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84zi7jeujn.fsf@siart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3948.1510996570.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Emacs continues to support XP, I use it that way all the time. I'm
> guessing that you are using precompiled binaries from some site, and
> those binaries were linked against system libraries which require
> functions not present in the C runtime on XP. (If these are official
> GNU binaries, then it's unfortunate we provide such binaries.
Yes indeed. 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
> In that case, please file a bug report using report-emacs-bug.)
Will try to do so.
> I think the root cause is that MinGW64 stopped supporting Windows XP.
> This is probably justified in the 64-bit builds, but MinGW64 also
> offers a 32-bit build environment, where XP should have been
> supported. FWIW, mingw.org's MinGW still supports Windows XP (and
> also Windows 9X).
Thanks, Eli, for that hope-raising background information.
--
Uwe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-18 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-18 8:45 Emacs 25.3+ fails to start on Win XP Uwe Siart
2017-11-18 9:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.3948.1510996570.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2017-11-18 10:43 ` Uwe Siart [this message]
2017-11-18 10:48 ` Uwe Siart
2017-11-29 12:05 ` Uwe Siart
2017-11-29 19:41 ` Glenn Morris
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