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| author | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2022-05-13 08:39:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> | 2022-05-18 08:54:22 +0200 |
| commit | 0ce9b08c10d043307d125709032a897d05c80bdd (patch) | |
| tree | 6e2d1619fbfd33e7d4c00769be9be75b047707dc /docs | |
| parent | 6cbde91a27587ca27a3c1979fe7f5f0d28eb6db9 (diff) | |
docs/about: Update the support statement for Windows
Our support statement for Windows currently talks about "Vista / Server
2008" - which is related to the API of Windows, and this is not easy
to understand for the non-technical users. Additionally, glib sets the
_WIN32_WINNT macro to 0x0601 already, which indicates the Windows 7 API,
so QEMU effectively depends on the Windows 7 API, too.
Thus let's bump the _WIN32_WINNT setting in QEMU to the same level as
glib uses and adjust our support statement in the documentation to
something similar that we're using for Linux and the *BSD systems
(i.e. only the two most recent versions), which should hopefully be
easier to understand for the users now.
And since we're nowadays also compile-testing QEMU with MSYS2 on Windows
itself, I think we could mention this build environment here, too.
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/880
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Message-Id: <20220513063958.1181443-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst index e9163ba556..1958edb430 100644 --- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst +++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst @@ -86,11 +86,15 @@ similar versions. Windows ------- -The project supports building with current versions of the MinGW toolchain, -hosted on Linux (Debian/Fedora). - -The version of the Windows API that's currently targeted is Vista / Server -2008. +The project aims to support the two most recent versions of Windows that are +still supported by the vendor. The minimum Windows API that is currently +targeted is "Windows 7", so theoretically the QEMU binaries can still be run +on older versions of Windows, too. However, such old versions of Windows are +not tested anymore, so it is recommended to use one of the latest versions of +Windows instead. + +The project supports building QEMU with current versions of the MinGW +toolchain, either hosted on Linux (Debian/Fedora) or via MSYS2 on Windows. .. _Homebrew: https://brew.sh/ .. _MacPorts: https://www.macports.org/ |