Re: [boost] Windows XP support survey

Subject: Re: [boost] Windows XP support survey
From: Gevorg Voskanyan (gevbsd_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-07 18:39:55

On 06.05.2015 14:03, Niall Douglas wrote:
> [snip]

> However Visual Studio 2012
> cannot run on XP, nor by default can produce binaries which execute
> on XP,

Slight note on the above: that doesn't apply to all types of binaries, 
but only to EXE files. DLLs produced with a non-"_xp" toolset work just 
fine under Windows XP. In one of my projects I've put all the code in a 
DLL that is built regularly with the default toolset, and then I have a 
minimal EXE built with the _xp toolset that just forwards main()'s 
arguments to the DLL. That way the EXE never has to change, so there is 
no need to invoke the _xp toolset ever again even though the application 
undergoes heavy development and continues to work fine under Win XP.

Gevorg