Re: [boost] Boost.Filesystem for Universal Windows (windows-api=store)

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Filesystem for Universal Windows (windows-api=store)
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-10-06 09:39:36

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Mikael Olenfalk
<mikael.olenfalk_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Mikael Olenfalk
>> <mikael.olenfalk_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> > (I guess you mean this: https://github.com/boostorg/winapi)
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> > Looks nice, have you started porting to winrt already?
>>
>> I haven't but there were pull requests adding some support for WinRT.
>> I don't know how complete it is as I don't use or compile for WinRT.
>>
>>
> Is there a minimal supported _WIN32_WINNT setting we are targeting for
> Boost btw? Or is it more as low as possible but up to each library itself
> (I found nothing on http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_59_0.html)?

This is each library's decision. Most libraries should work on
Win2000, I think. The default target API was XP up until Boost 1.59
and now it's Vista on compilers that support the recent enough Windows
SDK and XP on others.