Re: [Fwd: Re: Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010]

[Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>]

On 03/07/2011 01:40 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 08:17:09PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Mar  7 16:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Mar  7 10:18, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>> This is one of those functions which has a __stdcall only in the header
>>>> file and not in the .cc file.  I know it's grasping at straws but did you
>>>> try adding all of the appropriate parameters to the .cc file?
>>>
>>> Yes.  I tried that, too, just like to remove it entirely, as well as
>>> to remove the regparm stuff.  Nothing changes the fact that I get a
>>> 487 error.
>>
>> I know what we can do.  We can simply remove support for XP.  That
>> would solve this issue once and for all!
> 
> It would be rather odd to continue to support NT4, and W2K while dropping XP
> but, what the heck.
> 
> cgf
> 
> (Actually, I still kinda like XP)

I'd be very sad to see XP support disappear any sooner than when
Microsoft declares it end-of-life, since I have not upgraded to anything
newer (I don't want to pay for anything newer than XP until I absolutely
have to, especially given the negative press that Vista got).

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