Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Aug 3, 3:54 pm, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Ben Fritz wrote:
> > > On Aug 2, 2:52 am, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > > I find it more important to support Windows 7, so unless we find a way
> > > > to support Windows 2000 without breaking Windows 7 compatibility it
> > > > won't change.
> >
> > > Is there a problem with providing two installers/binaries, one for
> > > Win7 64 bit, and 1 for other Windows versions? Many other applications
> > > I've used do it this way.
> >
> > The problem was not with 64 bit but with Windows 2000. Apparently it's
> > caused by using MSVC 2010. I'll try building with MSVC 2008.
> >
>
> Right, so maybe the installers would be differently separated, but the
> gist of my suggestion is:
>
> Installer A will contain a Vim compiled with MSVC 2008
> Installer B will contain a Vim compiled with MSVC 2010
>
> Or is it too difficult/expensive to have multiple versions of Visual
> Studio in a side-by-side installation?
I don't really want to build two versions of everything. It's already a
big hassle to build all the MS-Windows executables, adding another
variant will make it even more work.
I'll try building a version with MSVC 2008. Then we can verify this
also works on Windows 7 64 bit. I think it will.
I don't think we can support Windows 98/ME as well. It would require
using MSVC 2003 and I don't think those binaries will work on Windows 7.
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