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Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP

107 pointsby Oxodaolast Monday at 1:32 PM47 commentsview on HN

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OsrsNeedsf2Pyesterday at 10:41 PM

There's a surprisingly large Windows XP community; everything from security patches to browsers[0] to third party Discord clients[1].

[0] https://www.mypal-browser.org/ [1] https://github.com/DiscordMessenger/dm

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deniskayesterday at 11:46 PM

If you ever wanted to use a modern C and C++ compiler on windows xp, 32 bit version of w64devkit[1] does target it and provides a recent gcc version.

[1] https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit

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Lord_Zerotoday at 2:29 AM

Is it hard to write software that compiles and can run on windows XP now? What about like rust and python?

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laroditoday at 12:22 AM

What applications are base on this? I mean it sounds super charming and nostalgic to drop a line or two which runs on WinXP, but is this actually useful?

parhamnyesterday at 9:49 PM

> Added back 5ms sleep on Windows 7/8 in (*Process).Wait (reverted f0894a0)

This was interesting!