LO-4.0.6 with Visual Studio 2012: Windows XP Compatibiliy problem

[Jesús Corrius]

2013/11/21 Michael Stahl <mstahl at redhat.com>

> On 21/11/13 12:00, Dali wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I had a successful build of LibreOffice-4.0.6. Here is my conf:
> > - Build Environment: Windows 7 (64 bits)
> > - Microsoft Visual Studio version: 2012 update 4
> > -Autogen.lastrun:
>
> [...]
>
> > --with-windows-sdk-home=C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1
> >
> > I can install the msi result on Windows 7 and it works fine. I can also
> > install it successfully on *Windows XP* but i have this message when i
> try
> > to run LibreOffice:
> > -"..*soffice.exe is not a valid Win32 program*" => It doesn't work
> >
> > I really need and appreciate your help to fix this problem on Windows XP
> > !!!!
>
> on the libreoffice-4-1 and master branches you can fix this with the
> configure switch --with-windows-sdk=7.0A ... but that does not work on
> libreoffice-4-0 branch; there is a --with-windows-sdk-home switch.... oh
> you're already using that one.
>
> sorry, no idea why that doesn't work - MSVC2012 support was still
> experimental in those days anyway.
>
>

As usual, our MSDN friends have all the information you need here:

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/10/08/10357555.aspx?Redirected=true

We don't officially support Windows 2012 for the 4.0 branch, so please
don't distribute any 4.0.x release built with this compiler version (as,
even if it compiles, other unexpected problems may appear). But feel free
to play with it for development purposes.

-- 
Jesús Corrius <jesus at softcatala.org>
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