On Sunday, May 17, 2020 11:36:01 PM MDT Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > Unfortunately, the minimum Windows version "officially" supported > is Windows 7: > > https://forum.dlang.org/post/ktfgps$2ghh$1...@digitalmars.com > > With no testing on XP, you are bound to run into difficulties > trying to use the tools there. So yeah, your best bet is using a > compiler version that works and see if building dub from source > makes a difference. If you can't get dub to work, then you'll > want to look into using rdmd, which has shipped with dmd for > years now, or perhaps makefiles.
I'm pretty sure that Phobos (and possibly druntime) use Windows API calls that do not exist on XP and have done so for years now. You might get lucky and get some stuff to work on XP, but not everything will work. The only way to guarantee that it will work is to use a compiler version old enough that XP was still supported (which probably means grabbing one from the 2013 timeframe given the date of Walter's post, though it may be possible to dig through the changelog and find the exact version that Windows XP support was officially dropped). However, you're not going to be able to pull in much of anything with dub that way, because the older compiler likely won't be able to compile the newer code, and I don't know if a version of dub that old will ever work with the current dub repository. - Jonathan M Davis
