wxWidgets on old operating system

[marco_84]

Hello everybody,

I want to bring my creations also on the old operating systems: Win2000, Win98 and MSDos

On Windows2000 I get the following error when I start the program:

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The Attach Console entry point of the procedure could not be found in the KERNEL32.dll dynamic link library

what has changed in the compilation between wxWidgets 3.1.3 and wxWidgets 3.0.4 to compile on Windows 2000?

because with version 3.0.4 the program worked correctly also on windows 2000;


Windows 98: I was looking for a compiler for this version of widows that supports wxWidgets updated to the latest version of wxWidgets;

MSDos: here too I'm looking for a compiler that supports at least the basic wxWidgets version to be able to porting on MSDos as well, I also need wxWidgets on the command line.


thanks


marco_84

[PB]

wxWidgets 3.1 claim to support Windows XP up to Windows 10, but I doubt any real testing is done on 20-year-old OS such as XP.

I also believe that trying to make current wxWidgets work with those very obsolete platforms and compilers would be a fool's errand.

OTOH, you can easily make command line version of a wxWidgets application on MSW (e.g. using linker's Console subsystem in MSVS) using only wxBase classes, I gather it would no be difficult to do at least on Linux as well...

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi,
Windows XP is still supported from the SP3 (which is the last one). And it is the lowest supported version of Windows there is.

But even that is never tried. I believe Travis CI is set up to use Win 7.

Thank you.

[marco_84]

Hello everybody

what are the older versions of the wxwidgets that support the operating systems mentioned in my first post?

and if there are always on the internet, which compilers should I use?


thanks for the clarification

marco_84

[PB]

wxWidgets 3.0.4 install.txt has

This is wxWidgets for Microsoft Windows 9x/ME, Windows NT
and later (2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, etc) including both 32 bit and 64
bit versions.

But this version may not support modern Windows features such as HiDPI. BTW, Win9x/Me do not even have proper Unicode support, only the NT family has.

Do you really have (a significant number of) users of those old unsupported OSes justifying a considerable (and perhaps fruitless) effort to attempt their support?

Based on cursory google search, I think even MSVS 2005 is probably the latest version of MSVS supporting Windows 98,

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi,
But it's just on Windows.

Thank you.

[marco_84]

Hello everybody

I have two old vintage PCs and I would like to try to have fun on those with my brother too

in visualstudio I don't know how to compile wxWidgets 3.0.4, could you give me a link with the instructions to compile wxwidgets 3.0.4 with visual studio 2005

Thanks for your help

marco_84

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi,
You just open the appropriate dsw file in the MSVC 2005 and compile.

Thank you.

[marco_84]

hello Oneeyeman
where I find this dsw file to compile the wxwidgets?


marco_84

[PB]

I would try (MSVS 2005 = version 8) opening WXWIN\msw\build\wx_vc8.sln.

[marco_84]

Hi PB I tried with visual studio 2005 but it only works from win2000 and newer versions of windows.

I also tried visual studio 6.0 and it installs correctly on win98 but wxwidgets 3.0.4 doesn't contain the right file, I suppose I need an older version of wxwidgets

can you recommend me an alternative compiler that works on windows 98 and compiles wxwidgets 3.0.4?


thanks


marco_84

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi,
Support for MSVC 6 was dropped in wx3.0. So you need 2.8.12 (latest).
Are you trying to compile on those 2 old machines?

I wouldn't do it. Try to compile on one of the newer ones and test on the older ones.

Thank you.

[PB]

Hi PB I tried with visual studio 2005 but it only works from win2000 and newer versions of windows.

I assumed you wanted to target these old Windows versions, not to actually use them for development.

I also tried visual studio 6.0 and it installs correctly on win98 but wxwidgets 3.0.4 doesn't contain the right file, I suppose I need an older version of wxwidgets

With MSVC6, you should use WXWIN\build\msw\wx.dsw. I would also make sure I had VS6SP6 installed...

[marco_84]

Hello everybody

I managed to install wxwidgets on visualstudio 6.0 with serviepack 6

I tried to compile the minimal example project but I get this error:

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Deleting intermediate files and output files for project 'minimal - Win32 Debug'.
--------------------Configuration: minimal - Win32 Debug--------------------
Compiling resources...
Compiling...
minimal.cpp
Linking...
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file "wxmsw30ud_core.lib"
Error executing link.exe.

minimal.exe - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)

where can I have to copy this file to find the linker?


thanks

marco_84

[doublemax]

Did you build the wxWidgets libraries first?

Did you use wx 2.8.12 now? Then the library names will be different, e.g. wxmsw28ud_core.lib instead of wxmsw30ud_core.lib