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If you ever wanted to use a modern C and C++ compiler on windows xp, 32 bit version of w64devkit[1] does target it and provides a recent gcc version. [1] https

by deniska 9mo ago

If you ever wanted to use a modern C and C++ compiler on windows xp, 32 bit version of w64devkit[1] does target it and provides a recent gcc version. [1] https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit

userbinator 9mo ago
From what I remember doing it several years ago, it was not too hard to patch MSVC 2019 to run on (not just generate binaries for) XP.
acuozzo 9mo ago
Anything for Win9x?
- badsectoracula 9mo ago
  I haven't tried it but i saw this a few days ago: https://github.com/crazii/MINGW-toolchains-w9x https://github.com/crazii/MINGW-toolchains-w9x
  - acuozzo 9mo ago
    Thank you!!!
- unleaded 9mo ago
  I found out the other day you can use modern clang-cl with the MSVC6 headers and it just works. you can download them from here https://github.com/itsmattkc/MSVC600 https://github.com/itsmattkc/MSVC600 or just copy it from an install if you have one handy. then run (something like) this: clang-cl /winsysroot:"" /DWINVER=0x0400 /D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400 -m32 /GS- -march=i586 -Wno-nonportable-include-path /imsvc"C:\MSVC6\VC98\Include" hello.c -fuse-ld=lld-link /link /SAFESEH:NO /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,4.0 /LIBPATH:"C:\MSVC6\VC98\Lib" user32.lib kernel32.lib msvcrt.lib I don't know if it's any better or worse than MinGW practically but it is definitely cursed.
- Jigsy 9mo ago
  I'm guessing this no longer qualifies as "modern," since the last update was in 2018 and is no longer in active development, but I'd like to say that the 32bit version of the Tiny C Compiler by Fabrice Bellard works on Windows 98 SE. https://www.bellard.org/tcc/ https://www.bellard.org/tcc/
  - thegeekpirate 9mo ago
    There's a fork which has been continually worked on https://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git https://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git Unofficial mirror https://github.com/TinyCC/tinycc https://github.com/TinyCC/tinycc
archargelod 9mo ago
Coincidentally, just a few days ago, I tried to run Nim[0] on Windows XP as an experiment. And to my surprise, the latest 32-bit release of Nim simply works out the box. But Nim compiles to C, so I also needed C compiler. Many versions of mingw I could find online - they all failed to launch. After some time I managed to find very old Mingw (gcc 4.7.1) that have finally worked [1]. [0] - https://nim-lang.org/ https://nim-lang.org/ [1] - https://ibb.co/TBdvZPVt https://ibb.co/TBdvZPVt
- anthk 9mo ago
  Try MinC, MinC is not Cygwin. Install both the base and the compiler from their page. https://minc.commandlinerevolution.nl/english/home.html https://minc.commandlinerevolution.nl/english/home.html
anthk 9mo ago
TCL/Tk 8.6 for XP, and as a bonus you get a gopher and gemini browser from gopher://hoi.st called BFG: gopher://texto-plano.xyz:70/1/~anthk/bfgxp Unzip the file and launch "lanzar.bat" in order to test it. I think I added tcllib and tklib just in case, so you can do a lot with that interpreter.
zoobab 9mo ago
I used CoLinux with pubuntu, and from there install GCC.

by deniska 9mo ago

userbinator 9mo ago

From what I remember doing it several years ago, it was not too hard to patch MSVC 2019 to run on (not just generate binaries for) XP.

acuozzo 9mo ago

Anything for Win9x?

badsectoracula 9mo ago
I haven't tried it but i saw this a few days ago: https://github.com/crazii/MINGW-toolchains-w9x https://github.com/crazii/MINGW-toolchains-w9x
- acuozzo 9mo ago
  Thank you!!!
unleaded 9mo ago
I found out the other day you can use modern clang-cl with the MSVC6 headers and it just works. you can download them from here https://github.com/itsmattkc/MSVC600 https://github.com/itsmattkc/MSVC600 or just copy it from an install if you have one handy. then run (something like) this: clang-cl /winsysroot:"" /DWINVER=0x0400 /D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400 -m32 /GS- -march=i586 -Wno-nonportable-include-path /imsvc"C:\MSVC6\VC98\Include" hello.c -fuse-ld=lld-link /link /SAFESEH:NO /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,4.0 /LIBPATH:"C:\MSVC6\VC98\Lib" user32.lib kernel32.lib msvcrt.lib I don't know if it's any better or worse than MinGW practically but it is definitely cursed.
Jigsy 9mo ago
I'm guessing this no longer qualifies as "modern," since the last update was in 2018 and is no longer in active development, but I'd like to say that the 32bit version of the Tiny C Compiler by Fabrice Bellard works on Windows 98 SE. https://www.bellard.org/tcc/ https://www.bellard.org/tcc/
- thegeekpirate 9mo ago
  There's a fork which has been continually worked on https://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git https://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git Unofficial mirror https://github.com/TinyCC/tinycc https://github.com/TinyCC/tinycc

archargelod 9mo ago

Coincidentally, just a few days ago, I tried to run Nim[0] on Windows XP as an experiment. And to my surprise, the latest 32-bit release of Nim simply works out the box. But Nim compiles to C, so I also needed C compiler. Many versions of mingw I could find online - they all failed to launch. After some time I managed to find very old Mingw (gcc 4.7.1) that have finally worked [1]. [0] - https://nim-lang.org/ https://nim-lang.org/ [1] - https://ibb.co/TBdvZPVt https://ibb.co/TBdvZPVt

anthk 9mo ago
Try MinC, MinC is not Cygwin. Install both the base and the compiler from their page. https://minc.commandlinerevolution.nl/english/home.html https://minc.commandlinerevolution.nl/english/home.html

anthk 9mo ago

TCL/Tk 8.6 for XP, and as a bonus you get a gopher and gemini browser from gopher://hoi.st called BFG: gopher://texto-plano.xyz:70/1/~anthk/bfgxp Unzip the file and launch "lanzar.bat" in order to test it. I think I added tcllib and tklib just in case, so you can do a lot with that interpreter.

zoobab 9mo ago

I used CoLinux with pubuntu, and from there install GCC.