Re: Unable to build GDB on Windows
Eli Zaretskii via Gdb <[email protected]>
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> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 08:15:23 -0700 > From: Joel Brobecker <[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. Maybe just say that in some README?