Re: MinGW build on master fails with Error 127

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2022 16:11:47 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Loreno Heer <helohe@bluewin.ch>
> 
> > Are you building Emacs on Windows 7?  If yes, I understand what they
> > are saying: that MinGW64 no longer supports Windows 7.
> 
> Yes I am building on Win 7 ESR. But it looks like I have to switch to
> linux soon because everyone drops support for it.
> 
> I think in theory though their build system still supports win 7 or
> older just fine. As long as I set that variable everything builds and
> runs just fine.

In general, when the runtime drops support for Windows 7, you cannot
reliably run binaries produced with that runtime on that system.  It
could be sheer luck that you get away during the build process, and
even if you do get away, the produced binary could fail in some weird
ways afterwards.