Re: MinGW build on master fails with Error 127

[Loreno Heer]

On 24.12.2022 16:44, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2022 16:11:47 +0100
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> From: Loreno Heer <helohe@bluewin.ch>
>>
>>> Are you building Emacs on Windows 7?  If yes, I understand what they
>>> are saying: that MinGW64 no longer supports Windows 7.
>>
>> Yes I am building on Win 7 ESR. But it looks like I have to switch to
>> linux soon because everyone drops support for it.
>>
>> I think in theory though their build system still supports win 7 or
>> older just fine. As long as I set that variable everything builds and
>> runs just fine.
> 
> In general, when the runtime drops support for Windows 7, you cannot
> reliably run binaries produced with that runtime on that system.  It
> could be sheer luck that you get away during the build process, and
> even if you do get away, the produced binary could fail in some weird
> ways afterwards.

That is a pity, but thanks for all the help and pointing this out.
I planned to migrate to linux at some point next year anyway. Mostly
just my music player and some other things (firmware updates for RME
hardware) keep forcing me to use windows. But still was hoping to have
some more time to do so.
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