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by kazinator 2247 days ago
The core API's of Windows are so stable that if someone got it working once on WIndows NT, the executable should work for everyone on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 and 10, ...
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Jedd 2247 days ago
Yup - one of my smarter colleagues had a go at getting it compiled on Windows, and basically gave it up as the library dependencies were such a mess on that platform.

No one seems to have packaged up binaries for it either.

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mycall 2239 days ago
> Win32 (with Cygwin)

Is that good enough support?

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Jedd 2238 days ago
Are you saying that's an environment in which you can compile it?

We tried.

MinGW refers to headers from BSD sockets, which doesn't exist on windows.

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