Studio 6..1 and Windows XP

[Mischa]

Hi Doug,

I've installed VS2013 redist during testing, as Omnis.exe required
msvcr120.dll installed, when the error message as described came up (prior
to that, omnis.exe kept ranting about msvcr120.dll). I think, VS2012 won't
work anyway. Maybe it works on 64bit versions.

Good luck
Mischa

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Von: omnisdev-en [mailto:omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com] Im Auftrag
von Doug Easterbrook
Gesendet: Montag, 30. März 2015 23:54
An: OmnisDev List - English
Betreff: Re: Studio 6..1 and Windows XP

hi Mischa:

thats perfect -- its a technical reason that 32 bit Studio 6.1 can't run.
Although, a little google says that the issue is resolved in update1 of the
visual runtime for 2012 -- which lets you compile for XP.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13130713/how-to-compile-for-win-xp-with-v
isual-studio-2012


thank you.     

we have a fair number of customers using 32 bit win 2003 R2 server (I know,
not xp), but I suspect that will come to end of life as well even if all our
other things still run on it.

Doug Easterbrook
Arts Management Systems Ltd.
mailto:doug at artsman.com
http://www.artsman.com
Phone (403) 536-1205    Fax (403) 536-1210

> On Mar 30, 2015, at 2:43 PM, Mischa <mischa at omnislab.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Doug,
> 
> straight forward - no. Does not work. Omnis.exe needs the jump address
> GetTickCount64 that is not provided in Kernel32.dll of XP (tried it with
> 32bit version, of course).
> 
> Hth
> Mischa
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: omnisdev-en [mailto:omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com] Im
Auftrag
> von Doug Easterbrook
> Gesendet: Montag, 30. März 2015 18:49
> An: OmnisDev List - English
> Betreff: Re: Studio 6..1 and Windows XP
> 
> hi Bas:
> 
> it is a straight forward technical question -- 'can it be done'?
> 
> Knowing the complete lay of the land regarding technical options is
> important and I want to find out if its an arbitrary decision placed into
> the installer, or a *real life* technical limitation.
> 
> 
> I'm not interested in 'well you shouldn't because.... (insert your
> technical, moral or philosophical reason why not)'.
> 
> 
> I'd like my customers to move forward and I have forced progress on them
in
> some cases.    There are things we no longer support because our hand was
> forced, but if:
> - I do not have to force my hand
> - it is not hurting my support team
> - it is limited extra work on our behalf
> - and the client expresses a desire
> 
> then I'll keep compatibility with older operating systems or database
> versions around unless I absolutely must have a feature that cannot be
> backward supported at limited expense
> 
> I prefer to keep my development tools at a defined level.   If studio 6.1
> cuts me from XP support, using the register/calldll -- thats something to
> know -- and I can make a decision.
> 
> the very last thing I want to say to customers is...   sorry, I cannot
help
> you because I wont.    I'd prefer to say, you can continue on your path
you
> chose (i.e. XP),  but we recommend, as soon as you can, to put money into
> your budget to buy a machine that only runs windows 10 and hate it....
> 
> 
> sadly, both OSX (yes I love Mac) and Windows (hasn't been good customer
> experiences) are migrating to overprotection.    Yosemite hasn't been the
> best OS for running applications on.  I don't want to force customers to
go
> places that they don't want to go to.
> 
> 
> 
> hence..   is it possible???  anybody tried it??
> 
> 
> Doug Easterbrook
> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
> mailto:doug at artsman.com
> http://www.artsman.com
> Phone (403) 536-1205    Fax (403) 536-1210
> 
>> On Mar 29, 2015, at 7:43 PM, Bastiaan Olij <bastiaan at basenlily.me> wrote:
>> 
>> The big question I have is "why". XP is dead. It's leaking like a
>> basketcase and leaving your business open to a myriad of risks. You
>> never know what changes TL has made to move the product forward that
>> will break parts of your code that you haven't found yet.
> 
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