How do I compile for windows XP under windows 7 / visual studio 2008
- by Jon Cage
I'm running Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2008 Pro and trying to get my application to work on Windows XP SP3.
It's a really minimal command line program so should have any ridiculous dependencies:
// XPBuild.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//
#include "stdafx.h"
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
printf("Hello world");
getchar();
return 0;
}
I read somewhere that defining several constants such as WINVER should allow me to compile for other platforms. I've tried the added the following to my /D compiler options:
;WINVER=0x0501;_WIN32_WINNT 0x0501;NTDDI_VERSION=NTDDI_WINXP
But that made no difference. When I run it on my Windows XP machine (actually running in a virtualbox) I get the following error:
This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
So what have I missed? Is there something else required to run MSVC compiled programs or a different compiler option or something else?
