Thanks for details.

So I guess I'll ask the question again, is there a desire for Win2K
support? I'm not sure I really have an opinion one way or the other.
In relation to the previous discussion, I do think we should maintain
a single code base, so I guess this means either coding to the
lowest-common spec, some sort of test-and-branch or C macros (?).

I do think it would be helpful to spit out a "OS not supported" error
condition in these cases.

-Nathan

On 2/26/07, Alex Astapchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Btw, the w2k issue has been raised before. Start of the tread is here:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/harmony-dev/200608.mbox/[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]

then it turns into 'platform support':

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/harmony-dev/200608.mbox/[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]

and HARMONY-1145 was filed against the issue.

--
Thanks,
   Alex


Alex Astapchuk wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
>
>  > Failed to open JVM DLL:
>  >
> 
C:\bt-trunk\cc\projects\drlvm\trunk\build\win_ia32_msvc_debug\deploy\jdk\jre\bin\default\harmonyvm
>
>
> DRLVM can not be run on Win2000: it uses 'vectored exception
> handler' [1] (instead of old-fashion structured exception handler),
> and this feature requires at least WinXP/Win2k3 [2].
>
> There may be more XP-specific functions I'm not aware about, but
> at least this one will make the loading fail because the loader
> can not find AddVectoredExceptionHandler export in kernel32.dll.
>
> [1] vm\vmcore\src\util\win\nt_platform_utils.cpp
>      grep for AddVectoredExceptionHandler around the line 63.
>
> [2] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms679274.aspx
>
> Requirements
> Client Requires Windows Vista or Windows XP.
> Server Requires Windows Server "Longhorn" or Windows Server 2003.
> Header Declared in Winbase.h; include Windows.h.
> Library Use Kernel32.lib.
> DLL Requires Kernel32.dll.
>
>
>




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