Re: Unable to build GDB on Windows
Joel Brobecker <[email protected]>
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> 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