Re: Building today's snapshot of GDB with MinGW

Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-02T02:31:46Z

> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 12:29:13 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/lists/archive/users/2020-June/000541.html
> >
> > It currently makes me unable to run the built GDB on Windows XP, but I
> > can run it on newer versions of Windows. So this is not a blocking
> > problem.
>
> I thought we dropped support for Windows XP? I think that is
> a reasonable assumption, considering how long ago MS dropped
> support for that version.

Which is why I said this should not block the branching. (My main
Windows development machine runs Windows XP, so it's important to me,
but that's me.)

P.S. I don't think GDB dropped support for XP, it's MinGW64 that did.