Re: Remove support for Visual Studio 2013

On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 06:26:20PM +0200, Juan José Santamaría Flecha wrote:
> This is because current MinGW defaults to Windows 2003 [1], maybe we should
> fix Windows' minimal version to Vista (0x0600) unconditionally also. I have
> seen a couple of compilation warnings while testing that setting on MinGW,
> please find attached a patch for so.
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/mirror/mingw-w64/blob/master/mingw-w64-headers/include/sdkddkver.h

Ah, right. I have forgotten about this business with MinGW.

@@ -1757,7 +1757,7 @@ get_collation_actual_version(char collprovider, const char *collcollate)
collcollate,
GetLastError())));
}
- collversion = psprintf("%d.%d,%d.%d",
+ collversion = psprintf("%ld.%ld,%ld.%ld",
(version.dwNLSVersion >> 8) & 0xFFFF,
version.dwNLSVersion & 0xFF,
(version.dwDefinedVersion >> 8) & 0xFFFF,

Is this change still required even if we bump MIN_WINNT to 0x0600 for
all the environments that include win32.h? At the end, this would
mean dropping support for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 as
run-time environments as listed in [1], which are not supported
officially since 2014 (even if there have been some patches for
some critical issues). So I'd be fine to raise the bar for v16~,
particularly as this would allow us to get rid of this code related to
locales.

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/porting/modifying-winver-and-win32-winnt?view=msvc-170
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Michael