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ComputerNerd / mingw32-crtdll

Arch Linux PKGBUILD files which builds a Mingw32 toolchain which uses CRTDLL.dll instead of MSVCRT.dll.
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Open lm8 opened 2 years ago

lm8 commented 2 years ago

Just saw your post in the Rendera issues. Don't know if you saw my previous post there with patches for Rendera on Windows. I build a lot of FLTK and SDL based programs from source on a wide variety of platforms. I use MinGW as well but am still using the original MinGW from mingw.org and still running the versions that were licensed as public domain. I've been keeping my own updates of w32api. Didn't see a contact address at your web site, so I figured I'd post here. If you'd like to compare notes or share patches for applications that work on older versions of Windows, let me know.

ComputerNerd commented 2 years ago

I just looked at your comments. I haven't seen them until now.

My main interest is in finding open source programs that can easily be compiled to run on older versions of Windows. So far I've found out that FLTK has good compatibility so some programs based on FLTK can easily be compiled to run on older versions of Windows.

There are trade-offs that you can make to support more versions of Windows. The earlier you go the more you'll have to work to update the applications. This one here makes more tradeoffs so it can go all the way to Windows 3.11.

lm8 commented 2 years ago

FLTK works well on lots of systems even DOS. SDL 1.2.15 seems to port very well too. I'm always looking for useful programs that port well with those libraries. Slowly getting a growing list. There are a lot of interesting FLTK programs listed at the FLTK web site but many are for different versions of FLTK and then I end up needing to port them to the version I'm running. NIce that you're able to get programs working on some of the very early versions of Windows. It's getting harder and harder to support that as FLOSS programs keep updating.