FYI, I looked briefly into this and I think the only thing that XP doesn't have is InterlockedCompareExchange64 win api. msvc supports the _InterlockedCompareExchange64 intrinsic we could probably use instead, but I couldn't test it since the runtime wouldn't build for me in VS when I tried. I agree that XP is an EOL platform and we shouldn't invest any time in it (but it'd be pretty funny nonetheless if I could run asp.net 5 on a decades old OS *g*). -- Alex > Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 21:43:44 +0100 > From: direct...@apebox.org > To: mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > Subject: Re: [Mono-dev] Can't run mono-3.12.X on Windows XP (Mono-devel-list > Digest, Vol 120, Issue 4) > > > > On 09/04/15 18:48, Keedi Kim wrote: > > Hi, guys. > > > > I tried recent version of Mono (3.12.X) on Windows XP machine. I've > > installed Visual C++ 2013 (x86) redistributable, then installed Mono. But > > every mono related executables are failed to run. The error message was: > > > > "mono.exe is not a valid win32 application" > > > > I checked download page ( http://download.mono-project.com/archive/ ) and > > installed previous older version which is > > mono-3.2.3-gtksharp-2.12.11-win32-0.exe then all mono binaries are executed > > well. I wonder if the mono supports Windows XP. Are there extra works to > > use recent version of mono in XP machine? > > Sooooooooo....... The short version is it doesn't work with 3.12+, which > are built with Visual Studio 2013. > > I tried building with parameters to enable legacy XP support, and it > should *install* on XP now, with the 4.0.0 alpha release - but it will > fail to work, due to needing commands in kernel32.dll (one of the most > fundamental Windows components) which are only available in Vista or above. > > XP stopped having any support whatsoever from Microsoft more than a year > ago, and is now a massive security risk for anyone running it - I don't > want to invest any more time than I already have on XP support, until > management tells me otherwise - at which point it's the runtime team's > problem to stop relying on basic kernel32.dll functionality. > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list
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