7 May
2015
7 May
'15
10:39 p.m.
On 06.05.2015 14:03, Niall Douglas wrote:
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However Visual Studio 2012 cannot run on XP, nor by default can produce binaries which execute on XP,
Slight note on the above: that doesn't apply to all types of binaries, but only to EXE files. DLLs produced with a non-"_xp" toolset work just fine under Windows XP. In one of my projects I've put all the code in a DLL that is built regularly with the default toolset, and then I have a minimal EXE built with the _xp toolset that just forwards main()'s arguments to the DLL. That way the EXE never has to change, so there is no need to invoke the _xp toolset ever again even though the application undergoes heavy development and continues to work fine under Win XP. Gevorg