Re: Running away from, while still being nice to, XP

[Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>]

2014-04-04 19:03 GMT+02:00 Gerald Combs <gerald () 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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