how is mingw-w64 handing winxp or win8 ? For win7 besides openmp works really well
2013/5/19 bjornmose <[email protected]> > Well our statistics on world wide professionals ( using scientific > measuring software ) says: > > 10% win7, 50% win XP, very few vista the remains even older :) > and we do full support down to W2k. ( to Daniel .. including Europe , > USA and former UDSSR ) > How stupid is that to keep customers satisfied? > > Dropping Win8 support is no option, though i hope it will be like > ignoring 'vista' for good. > Says the next Win8 (X point anything internally ) will be as nice as Win > 7 was .. plus providing some nice new features. > Please no OS religions here, but fencing out XP users is suicide. > > Am 17.05.2013 21:38, schrieb Damir Prebeg: > > My advance apologies for this... After a few days of painful experience I > > would strongly recommend dropping of Win8 support. > > > > > > On 17 May 2013 17:26, Daniel Genrich <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> +1 for that. > >> > >> Dropping Win XP would be too soon since many people from south america > >> and africa are still using Win XP. > >> > >> Daniel > >> > >> > >> Am 17.05.2013 15:25, schrieb Thomas Dinges: > >>> Hi, > >>> if we do that, we could only build 2 builds. > >>> > >>> 32 bit: Compile with vc2008 for Windows XP and above > >>> 64 bit: Compile with vc2012 for Vista x64 and above > >>> > >>> We don't need x64 build for Windows XP, XP x64 is maybe used by 0.1%. > >>> > >>> This way all OS / bit configs would be served, and we don't have big > >>> overhead. > >>> > >>> Thomas > >>> > >>> Am 17.05.2013 15:14, schrieb Sergey Sharybin: > >>>> Also, we could do some "gradual" drop: meaning if vc2012's builds > would > >> not > >>>> be able to run on XP, we could compile two versions of blender -- one > >> with > >>>> msvc2008 and other one with msvc2012. We did quite the same thing with > >>>> linux builds as well (building it against different libc version using > >>>> older and newer gcc versions). > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Bf-committers mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
