2014-04-04 19:03 GMT+02:00 Gerald Combs <ger...@wireshark.org>: > I'd like to upgrade our 32-bit Windows buildbot from XP to 8.1 in the > near future. Aside from the obvious EOL issue it's difficult to use > automated management and packaging tools like Puppet and Chocolatey > under XP. Upgrading would also let us build releases using Visual C++ > 2012 and later, assuming we set up XP targeting correctly[1]. > > However, we still have lots of users on XP and need to make sure we > remain compatible for the time being. Is there a way to test an > application for XP compatibility without actually running it under XP? > Ideally it would be something that we could add to the automated build > system. > > [1] > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/10/08/windows-xp-targeting-with-c-in-visual-studio-2012.aspx >
Hi Gerald, I do not know how Windows compatibility mode works exactly, but running Wireshark 32 bits in Windows XP compatibility mode on Windows 7 64bits with my patch for GnuTLS 3.1.22 /Gcrypt 1.6.0 applied does not detect the MSVCRT.dll missing symbol I talked about in http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201404/msg00001.html. So I fear there is no reliable way to ensure Windows XP compatibility without running tests on a Windows XP machine. Pascal.
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