Andy

2.8.0 works fine on Windows 7.  I use it daily.

73

Charlie

On Thu, 1 May 2025 at 14:34, Andy Durbin via wsjt-devel <
wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> "Both Windows 7 or 8.x version support will not be available for Qt 6.
> Microsoft discontinued the support for both Windows versions some time ago,
> and as a vendor, we can no longer maintain support for these windows
> versions in Qt 6. Windows 7 (both 32bit and 64bit) was supported as a
> target in Qt 5.15 LTS and Windows 8.1 (both 32bit and 64bit) as a target in
> Qt 5.12 LTS. This means that we will not have 32bit Windows support
> available. Additionally, it will no longer be possible to create UWP 
> applications
> on Windows 10."
>
> ref - https://www.qt.io/blog/qt6-development-hosts-and-targets
>
> I have found that 2.8.0 improved is not compatible with Win 8.1 and no one
> has said that it works for them.
>
> Should the WSJT-X Windows compatibility statement be revised?  It
> currently states - " (Windows 7 and later)" which was true for 2.7.0 but
> may not be true if later official releases use Qt6.
>
> 73,
> Andy, k3wyc
>
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