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by letters90 2557 days ago
I'm curious but too lazy to look it up myself. SO I'll just ask.

How far does the 'linux' specification go. Say I want to run a V program on AIX what kind of libraries will I need?

What about the 'windows' specification. Do the redistributables support windows 2000/7/Vista/8/8.1/10

We have a lot of different systems on our clients, mac as well. It would be nice to read concrete requirements for running to really see how much effort rolling out a V application would be.

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Well, AIX is fairly unrelated to Linux...
V apps run on Windows XP without any issues. Rolling out a V application is just releasing one .exe file.
It is not that simple. If you are not careful you may end up using more recent winapi functions and/or constants that do not exist in XP. For example Rust supports XP on a best-efforts basis and as a result has broken XP support from time to time (the "tier 3" support [1] explicitly allows this situation). Unless you can run an automated CI on XP (does that even exist?!) you'd better support only recent OSes.

[1] https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html#tier-3

Nothing related to linux or windows is out yet.

macos was out, but got pulled.