Re: [PATCH] docs/about: Update the support statement for Windows

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 09:48:41AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Our support statement for Windows currently talks about "Vista / Server
> 2008" - which is related to the API of Windows, and this is not easy
> to understand for the non-technical users. It might also not be quite
> true anymore, since we only compile-test QEMU with recent toolchains.

We documented Vista / Server 2008 because that is what our code is
declaring it wants in terms of Windows public APIs:

In osdep.h we have:

  #ifdef _WIN32
  /* as defined in sdkddkver.h */
  #ifndef _WIN32_WINNT
  #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0600 /* Vista */
  #endif

which tells Mingw / MSys not to expose windows header file declarations
that post-date Vista.


With regards,
Daniel
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