[Coco] VCC 2.0.1b Released (New Thread)

[William Mikrut]

Wow... just, wow.

I didn't think it was possible.. then again I use VS lightly.

I am going to check that out.  If I can compile a few programs to work on
ws2003 without the need for VirtualBox... I would get all my sys resources
back!!

Ty for that research!
On Oct 3, 2015 11:18 PM, "James Ross" <jrosslist at outlook.com> wrote:

> > From: wmikrut72 at gmail.com
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] VCC 2.0.1b Released (New Thread)
> >
> > As Bill said... I see this a lot.
>
> No question it's probably a common scenario.
>
> > The current version of Visual Studio produces exe files that are not
> > compatible with earlier versions of windows.
>
> True to certain extent but is does not have to be. All recent versions of
> VC++ can create executables for Windows XP (and Windows Server 2003). More
> than likely the case is that the developers did not want to be troubled w/
> researching how to do it.
>
> Ok, so I got curious and I did a little research on this. So I did an
> experiment. I created a default Win32 app using VS2013 (have not installed
> 2015 yet, but I am sure for this purposes it's identical to 2015) and sure
> enough, I got the same error in XP (xxx.exe is not a valid Win32
> application).
>
> Then I applied these two settings in the project Property Settings:
>
> Configuration Properties | C/C++ | All Options | Additional Options
> Add the option: /D_ATL_XP_TARGETING
>
> then
>
> Configuration Properties | Linker | System | Minimum Required Version
> Set it to 5.01
>
> Now my test Win32 app would attempt to run but it complained that
> MSVCR120.dll was missing… I needed to do a static link the standard
> libraries. So a little more research...
>
> Configuration Properties | C/C++ | Code Generation | Runtime Library
> Set it to Multi-threaded (/MT)   ---- for the release settings chose the
> debug one for debug.
>
> Now the test app loaded and run fine under Windows XP.
>
> So, Bill there are the settings for whoever is compiling VCC to make it
> work w/ XP.   (if you want that... I know I would!)
>
> I found this info on these two pages
>
> How to target XP with VC2012 or VC2013 and continue to use the Windows 8.x
> SDK
>
> https://tedwvc.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/how-to-target-xp-with-vc2012-or-vc2013-and-continue-to-use-the-windows-8-x-sdk/
>
> Microsoft Visual Studio ~ C/C++ Runtime Library ~ Static/dynamic linking
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14749662/microsoft-visual-studio-c-c-runtime-library-static-dynamic-linking
>
> James
>
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