298625 - Operating system requirements

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[David G King]

As http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/system-requirements states (by
exclusion) that we no longer support Windows 95, all hard coded occurances of
_WIN32_WINNT should be changed from 0x400 to 0x410 as per information found at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winprog/winprog/using_the_windows_headers.asp

This will stop us building Win95 compatible code that is not used, and will
enable us to use SDK functions that aren't available under Win95.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

We do happen to continue supporting win95 as long as there are certain
prerequisite libraries installed (the MSVC6 runtime libs). We do not intend to
break this compatibility without a really compelling reason (e.g. gdi+).

Comment 2

[David G King]

In that case, should I file a seperate bug to get the System Requirements page
updated?