MinGW on XP?

Mucip

Hi,
This will be very strenge question I know.
Is there any way to run compiled by MinGW on XP system old computer? I tryed but got an error message?!

Regards,
Mucip:)

SGaist

Hi,

Not a strange question at all however you should give more details about that error you get.

mrjj

Hi
Please also tell what Qt version you are trying with.
As far as i know, theQt 5.6.3 is the last that can actually run.

Mucip

Dear @SGaist ,
Message is "Input point not found!" and message window attached.

I use Qt 5.10.1 MinGW.

This MinGW compiled program run well on Win7 32 bit. But I get this error on XP..

Regards,
Mucip:)

hskoglund

Hi, Qt 5.10.1 is too new for Windows XP :-(
I use 5.7.1 for some customers that are still onWindows XP.

mrjj

@hskoglund
Hi
Do you need to compile 5.7 yourself to get it working ?

hskoglund

@mrjj Morning. No distribution vanilla 5.7.1 works fine.

I keep a separate Windows 7 VM with Qt 5.7.1 MSVC2013 installed. I can update Qt Creator to the newest version, but 5.7.1 is "frozen".

Also, for MSVC2013 (but not for MinGW) you need this line in the .pro file:

QMAKE_LFLAGS_WINDOWS = /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,5.01

otherwise Windows XP will complain "Not an Win32 executable file".

mrjj

@hskoglund
Good morning. thank you for the fast reply.
Good news then. 5.7.1 just works \o/

kuzulis

@mrjj said in MinGW on XP?:

Good news then. 5.7.1 just works \o/

I'm not sure that it is true, as I remember that in Qt5.7.x where removed some Windows XP API (replaced to Windows Vista or even Windows 7)... Seems it was in networking support or something else (I not remember). So, It may work if you don't use that stuff...

aha_1980

@kuzulis is right, official 5.6.3 is the last release compatible with Windows XP. I've heard from some people here in the forum, that they use 5.7.1 on XP too, but there is absolutely no guarantee that it works.

Regards

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