[fpc-devel] End of support for Win XP?

Florian Klämpfl florian at freepascal.org
Tue Jan 30 22:40:13 CET 2018


Am 29.01.2018 um 21:11 schrieb Russell Davies:
> Hi,
> 
> Just curious, does the use of SHGetKnownFolderPath() in trunk package winunits-base in fpttf.pp mean
> the end of Windows XP support as this function is not available in XP's shell32.dll

Probably yes, at least with the release of 3.2.0. After all, Win XP is almost for 4 years out of
support. But if somebody decides to stick with Win XP, he can stick also with FPC 3.0.x, it will not
stop working.



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