[Privoxy-devel] Windows XP support?

[Lee]

On 1/12/22, Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> "Ian Silvester" <iansilvester at fastmail.fm> wrote on 2022-01-11 at 18:58:02:
>
>> Update - here's my proposed change for your approval prior to
>> committing:
>> https://silvester.org.uk/privoxy-doc-testing/faq/installation.html
>
> I don't quite like the wording "binaries shipped by the Privoxy project"
> and "Project-supplied binaries" and would prefer "binaries provided
> by members of the Privoxy team" or something similar that makes
> it clear that the binaries are provided by individuals and not
> the whole project.
>
> I'm also not so sure about mentioning old releases with known
> security issues without warning.
>
> For example my recommendation for Windows XP users would be to
> build the latest Privoxy release themselves if possible instead
> of downloading an obsolete Privoxy version that happens to "work".

I don't know if it's possible to use [what's the Microsoft C compiler
called?] or one of the mingw projects to build Privoxy "out of the
box" - ie. with no changes required to the source code or make files.
I've only used cygwin to build privoxy.

I just got this msg on the cygwin mailing lists today:
  https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2022-January/041813.html

  Show a MessageBox warning if we are running on a Windows version
   which we have deprecated Cygwin support for:

  - Windows 6.0 (Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008)
  - 32-bit Windows

So building the latest Privoxy on a no longer supported OS is going to
be difficult.
Not impossible.. there's a "cygwin time machine"  that allows one to
get a version of cygwin/mingw that worked on an ancient OS. But note

  https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2021-October/010271.html

  - Cygwin 3.3 is the LAST major version supporting

    - Windows Vista
    - Windows Server 2008

  - Cygwin 3.4, which will probably be release at some point in 2022,
  will be the LAST version supporting

    - Windows 7
    - Windows Server 2008 R2
    - Windows 8
    - Windows Server 2012

It's going to be increasingly difficult for someone to build Privoxy
on an unsupported Windows OS.  I'd suggest they find a flavour of
Linux that works on their hardware and install that on their machine.

Lee