Re: Unable to build GDB on Windows

Eli Zaretskii via Gdb <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: Christian Biesinger <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 17:17:49 +0200
> Cc: [email protected], Reuben Thomas via Gdb <[email protected]>
> 
> > OTOH, if you build on Windows before 7, the produced binary will be
> > able to run on newer versions of Windows by dynamically loading
> > bcrypt.dll (when available) at run time, and using a fallback
> > otherwise.
> 
> Hmm that sounds odd, usually the way the Windows SDK works is that
> this only depends on what you #define, not what you build on
> (especially _WIN32_WINNT)

Well, that's true, but how many will use "CPPFLAGS=-D_WIN32_WINNT=..."
when configuring GDB?  The default is buried somewhere in the MinGW
headers, and guess what it is?
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