Re: Unable to build GDB on Windows

Joel Brobecker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Btw, looking at Gnulib's getrandom.c, my conclusion is that a GDB
> built on Windows 7 and later will be unable to run on older versions
> of Windows, because it will have a static dependency on bcrypt.dll and
> the BCryptGenRandom function from that DLL.  IOW, such a GDB will
> refuse to run on older Windows systems.

I think that's fine. IMO, the general spirit should be that people
interested in building a GDB that works on multiple versions of
an OS should build it on the oldest version they want to support.
I don't think we want to commit to anything stronger than that.

-- 
Joel
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