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1. Are postgresql-9.4 binaries available on Windows XP?

   Hiroshi Inoue <inoue@tpf.co.jp> — 2014-08-22T03:45:39Z

   Hi Dave and Andrew,
   
   I recently noticed the thread
     [BUGS] BUG #11039: installation fails when trying to install C++
   redistributable .
   
   Unfortunately I have no XP machine at hand and can't test the
   installer by myself.
   
   Looking at the binaries in the package, they seem to be built using
   Visual Studio 2013. I'm suspicious if the binaries are available on
   Windows XP.
   
   If I recognize correctly, Visual Studio 2012 or later doesn't support
   Windows XP by default and Platform Toolset v120_xp (or v110_xp) must
   be specified so as to build binaries guaranteed to be avaiable on
   Windows XP. However MSBuildProject.pm seems to specify v120 (or v110) as
   the PlarformToolset property. Is it intentional?
   
   regards,
   Hiroshi Inoue
   
   
   

2. Re: Are postgresql-9.4 binaries available on Windows XP?

   Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> — 2014-08-22T09:11:06Z

   Hi
   
   On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Hiroshi Inoue <inoue@tpf.co.jp> wrote:
   > Hi Dave and Andrew,
   >
   > I recently noticed the thread
   >   [BUGS] BUG #11039: installation fails when trying to install C++
   > redistributable .
   >
   > Unfortunately I have no XP machine at hand and can't test the
   > installer by myself.
   >
   > Looking at the binaries in the package, they seem to be built using
   > Visual Studio 2013. I'm suspicious if the binaries are available on
   > Windows XP.
   >
   > If I recognize correctly, Visual Studio 2012 or later doesn't support
   > Windows XP by default and Platform Toolset v120_xp (or v110_xp) must
   > be specified so as to build binaries guaranteed to be avaiable on
   > Windows XP. However MSBuildProject.pm seems to specify v120 (or v110) as
   > the PlarformToolset property. Is it intentional?
   
   I can't say whether that was an intentional change or not as I wasn't
   involved in writing that patch, but I can say that EDB will not be
   supporting Windows XP for our future builds now that it's been
   (finally) made obsolete by Microsoft when extended support ended in
   April.
   
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