Re: Emacs 25.3+ fails to start on Win XP

[Uwe Siart]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Emacs continues to support XP, I use it that way all the time. I'm
> guessing that you are using precompiled binaries from some site, and
> those binaries were linked against system libraries which require
> functions not present in the C runtime on XP. (If these are official
> GNU binaries, then it's unfortunate we provide such binaries.

Yes indeed. I got that issue with

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-25.3-i686.zip

and also with

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-26-snapshot-x86_64.zip

and

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-27/emacs-27.0.50-snapshot-i686.zip

> In that case, please file a bug report using report-emacs-bug.)

Will try to do so.

> I think the root cause is that MinGW64 stopped supporting Windows XP.
> This is probably justified in the 64-bit builds, but MinGW64 also
> offers a 32-bit build environment, where XP should have been
> supported.  FWIW, mingw.org's MinGW still supports Windows XP (and
> also Windows 9X).

Thanks, Eli, for that hope-raising background information.

-- 
Uwe