From: Jacob Nevins Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 23:47:03 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Document VS2015 impact on very old Windows. X-Git-Tag: 0.68~8 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e5212fb41e7e1851aed802e76dfe3e9529bb9ad;p=PuTTY.git Document VS2015 impact on very old Windows. (In a XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE form.) Also, note the effect of compilation with different Visual Studio versions on Windows version compatibility in the source README, for the sake of having it written down somewhere. --- diff --git a/README b/README index 00db28d2..ef931dd1 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ For building on Windows: 7 (2003) and Visual Studio 14 (2015), so our guess is that it will probably build with versions in between those as well. + (The binaries from Visual Studio 14 are only compatible with + Windows XP and up. Binaries from Visual Studio 7 ought to work + with anything from Windows 95 onward.) + - Inside the windows/MSVC subdirectory are MS Visual Studio project files for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities. These have been tested on Visual Studio 7 and 10. @@ -53,7 +57,7 @@ For building on Windows: - Inside the windows/DEVCPP subdirectory are Dev-C++ project files for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities. -The PuTTY team actively use Makefile.vc (with VC7) and Makefile.mgw +The PuTTY team actively use Makefile.vc (with VC7/10) and Makefile.mgw (with mingw32), so we'll probably notice problems with those toolchains fairly quickly. Please report any problems with the other toolchains mentioned above. diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but index 2ad5f180..6d3dc35b 100644 --- a/doc/faq.but +++ b/doc/faq.but @@ -216,12 +216,13 @@ seems to be working so far. Currently, release versions of PuTTY tools only run on Windows systems and Unix. +\#{XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE: replace following two lines with: +As of 0.68, the supplied PuTTY executables run on versions of +Windows from XP onwards,} PuTTY runs on versions of Windows from Windows 95 onwards (but not -the 16-bit Windows 3.1; see \k{faq-win31}), up to and including -Windows 10; and we know of no reason why PuTTY should not continue -to work on future versions of Windows. -\#{XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE: should say something about w32old for -pre-XP Windows} +the 16-bit Windows 3.1; see \k{faq-win31}), +up to and including Windows 10; and we know of no reason why PuTTY +should not continue to work on future versions of Windows. The 32-bit Windows executables we provide for the \q{\i{x86}} processor architecture should also work fine on 64-bit processors