[windev] Windows 7

[Chris Becke]

Simply, yes.
It doesnt matter what OS you install VS2005 on - Hell you could install it on Linux using Wine and it wouldnt change what OSs the build applications run on.

Choosing your target OS is the case of (a) setting the WINVER (and some other related) environment variable. This simply modifies the windows header files to 'expose' newer functionality so you don't use APIs not avaiable on downstream OSs.

That said, if you upgrade to VS2008, that DOES stamp a minimum OS version of '5' into the PE header of generated EXE and DLL files, which does limit you to Windows 5 and up :- Windows 2000 being the first windows versioned at 5. (i.e. no 95, 98, 98SE, Millenium or NT 4).


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From: windev-bounces at windev.org [windev-bounces at windev.org] On Behalf Of truckleaj-windev at yahoo.co.uk [truckleaj-windev at yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: 04 July 2009 03:56 PM
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Subject: [windev] Windows 7

Hi

Wondered if one of you could clarify this for me ...

If I was to install the new Windows 7 on my computer and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and compile my MFC applications, will they still operate on Windows 2000 and Windows XP?

Right now I am using XP and I have held back from upgrading because of this concern of mine.

Thank you for anyone who can clarify this for me.

Andrew
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