Can't Start in WinXP

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geriatricmidget
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Can't Start in WinXP

#1 Post by geriatricmidget »

Hello all. Just downloaded this. Trying to install it on my WinXP machine and it says it's not a valid Win32 program.
I'm running XP Media Center SP3.
2.7Ghz Intel Pentium
2.9GB Ram.

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Geoff the Medio
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Re: Can't Start in WinXP

#2 Post by Geoff the Medio »

I believe the recent builds target the Windows 8.1 SDK, so probably won't work on earlier versions.

I suspect but an not sure that we need the v142 version of the Visual Studio platform toolset to work with all the C++ features that latest version of the code depends on. I'm not sure how much of that specifically impacts the v0.4.10 versions, but we probably changed the targeted Windows version when supporting the old one became difficult without substantial extra work.

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