629827 - (PSDK2003R2Removal) Stop support for building with Windows 2003R2 SDK only (= without Windows Vista/7 SDK) after Gecko 2.0

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 699385

(Firefox Build System :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Gecko 2.0 still supports building with Windows 2003R2 SDK only [though that disables some newer features].
As one of the probably last developers still using Windows 2000, I support and am thankful for that :-)

Yet, I can only agree with Ted or other people who would like to drop (specific) support for this (7-year old) SDK asap.
Let's do that after mozilla-2.0 has branched (for good).

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https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Windows_SDK_versions
{
Windows Server 2003 R2 Platform SDK

This is your only option if you're on Windows 2000. You'll also need to install this if you are using a free version of Visual C++ and want to build code that uses ATL.
}

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I think we should just require the Windows 7 SDK for building Gecko post-2.0, since we're using features from it already anyway.

Comment 2

[Bas Schouten (:bas.schouten)]

What's the status of this?

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(In reply to Bas Schouten (:bas) from comment #2)
> What's the status of this?

Options seem to be:
1) Continue to support P.SDK 2003R2 for now, as it currently is (supposed to be).
2) Confirm+Do this bug: drop P.SDK 2003R2 support only, as a first step.
3) Land+Complete bug 699385: drop Vista SDK support too, at the same time.

Comment 4

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Per comment 1, I think we should just require the Windows 7 SDK. It should be a simple configure change to make that happen, and we can do code cleanup to remove ifdefs as a followup.

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Fwiw, wrt current 12a1 tree:

Building on Try using "--with-windows-version=502":
*1 bug is fixed.
*2 bugs have attached patches to review.

Building locally with "Windows 2000 + P.SDK 2003R2 + VC8EE":
3 bugs have local patches I haven't attached yet.

With these, builds complete on both environments :-)

Comment 6

[Rain [:rain1] (inactive)]

I think we should dup this bug to bug 699385.

Comment 8

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

V.Duplicate