MINGW-packages: Applications linked with winpthread can not be run on Windows XP

An application linked with winpthread fails to start on Windows XP due to missing GetTickCount64() function in kernel32.dll. This function in available only starting from Vista. The dependency seems to come from this commit in winpthread. The use of GetTickCount64() is surrounded by #if _WIN32_WINNT >= _WIN32_WINNT_VISTA, but apparently the library was built with a high enough value of _WIN32_WINNT.

Do you still support building software for Windows XP? I did not found anything about supported target platforms on the website and wiki.

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Created 5 years ago
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Comments: 16 (4 by maintainers)

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Configure for local transcoding without ffplay Legacy Windows CRT compatibility fix cf. msys2/MINGW-packages#5139 — committed to CL-Jeremy/media-autobuild_suite by CL-Jeremy 4 years ago

Most upvoted comments

You might want to consider touching up your googling skills. http://www.msys2.org/ clearly states this.

Supporting insecure OSes does no one a favor.

+16

mingwandroid on Apr 4, 2019

Supporting insecure OSes does no one a favor.

Except when one have to maintain legacy systems still running on such an OS.

+14

pileon on May 28, 2020

If you are talking about this phrase:

Current MSYS2 can’t be installed on Windows XP anymore.

Then i have seen this. Being able to build on XP and being able to build for XP are different things. I would not call it “clearly”.

+11

vovams on Apr 4, 2019

I downgraded mingw-w64-i686-libwinpthread-git and mingw-w64-i686-winpthreads-git to 7.0.0.5273.3e5acf5d-1 according to instructions in wiki and it seems to work. At least for now.

Just leaving here a few commands for that in case someone will search:

wget http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/i686/mingw-w64-i686-libwinpthread-git-7.0.0.5273.3e5acf5d-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
wget http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/i686/mingw-w64-i686-winpthreads-git-7.0.0.5273.3e5acf5d-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

pacman -U --noconfirm mingw-w64-i686-libwinpthread-git-7.0.0.5273.3e5acf5d-1-any.pkg.tar.xz mingw-w64-i686-winpthreads-git-7.0.0.5273.3e5acf5d-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

rm mingw-w64-i686-libwinpthread-git-7.0.0.5273.3e5acf5d-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
rm mingw-w64-i686-winpthreads-git-7.0.0.5273.3e5acf5d-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

trufanov-nok on Jul 11, 2019

I downgraded mingw-w64-i686-libwinpthread-git and mingw-w64-i686-winpthreads-git to 7.0.0.5273.3e5acf5d-1 according to instructions in wiki and it seems to work. At least for now.

Just leaving here a few commands for that in case someone will search:
wget http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/i686/mingw-w64-i686-libwinpthread-git-7.0.0.5273.3e5acf5d-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
wget http://repo.msys2.org/mingw/i686/mingw-w64-i686-winpthreads-git-7.0.0.5273.3e5acf5d-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

pacman -U --noconfirm mingw-w64-i686-libwinpthread-git-7.0.0.5273.3e5acf5d-1-any.pkg.tar.xz mingw-w64-i686-winpthreads-git-7.0.0.5273.3e5acf5d-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

rm mingw-w64-i686-libwinpthread-git-7.0.0.5273.3e5acf5d-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
rm mingw-w64-i686-winpthreads-git-7.0.0.5273.3e5acf5d-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

Small problem: They purged those versions of winpthread. There’s no archive of them I can find.

nambona890 on Apr 28, 2023

Supporting insecure OSes does no one a favor.

Security isn’t the only thing that matters. I have a netbook that will never have Windows Vista or up but that plays classic Windows games perfectly fine. Supporting it does me a favor.

jbruchon on Dec 16, 2022

Also the support would enable software on ReactOS, which implements NT5.1/5.2 APIs and is very much in development.

sskras on Jan 1, 2023

Yeah, thanks. You might want to consider writing a list of supported Windows versions somewhere. Because i was unable to find that information.

vovams on Apr 3, 2019

I downgraded mingw-w64-i686-libwinpthread-git and mingw-w64-i686-winpthreads-git to 7.0.0.5273.3e5acf5d-1 according to instructions in wiki and it seems to work. At least for now.

vovams on Apr 3, 2019